SCHEDULE (TENTATIVE)

DATE TOPIC PROJECT HUNSTON OTHER READINGS

GENERAL METHODOLOGY
T JAN 8 Introduction     Survey1, Survey2
Th 10 Overview of the field Simple queries -- getting used to corpora 1-24;
213-16		  
T 15 Methodology     McEnery, Tony and Andrew Wilson (2001) Early Corpus Linguistics and the Chomskyan Revolution. In Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh UP. 2nd edition. 1-27.
Th 17 Structured  corpora What is available in your area of interest   -- Meyer, Charles (2003) English Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge. 142-50. (A)
-- Online overview (David Lee)
T 22 Unstructured corpora
(e.g. Web)		     Kilgarriff, Adam and Gregory Grefenstette (2003) “Web as corpus”. Computational Linguistics 29:1-15
Th 24 Corpus design and construction Web as corpus 25-37 -- Kennedy, Graeme (1998) Introduction to Corpus Linguistics. Longman. 60-78.
-- Fair Use Law
T 29       "     "      
Th 31 Annotation Design corpus for your area of interest 79-96  
T FEB 5 Word Lists and Keywords   67-79 WordCruncher
WordSmith
Th 7   Wordlists    
T 12 Concordances    38-56  
Th 14      "     " Concordances 56-66  
T 19   MONDAY INSTRUCTION    
Th 21 Relational databases  Prospectus for project   Davies, Mark (2005) "The advantage of using relational databases for large corpora: speed, advanced queries, and unlimited annotation". International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 10: 301-28 (Via Corpora page)
T 26 Quantitative data    

McEnery, Tony and Andrew Wilson (2001) Quantitative Data.  In Corpus Linguistics. 2nd edition. Edinburgh UP. 2nd edition. 75-101.

APPLICATIONS
Th 28 Lexicography    96-109  
T MAR 4      "     " Lexicography project 137-57 Kennedy, Graeme (1998) Introduction to Corpus Linguistics. Longman. 91-121. **
Th 6 Grammar     Biber, Douglas, et al (2002) The Longman Student Grammar of Spoken and Written English. Longman. (Selected pages)
T 11      "     " Grammar study   Book review
Th 13   CORPUS CONFERENCE    
T 18   GUEST LECTURE: THORSTEN TRIPPEL  

 
Th 20a
20b		 Register variation Study on register variation  102-4; 157-169  Biber, Douglas (1993) "The multi-dimensional approach to linguistic analyses of genre variation: an overview of methodology and findings". Computers and the Humanities 26: 331-45.
T 25 Stylistics   109-23, 128-34  
Th 27 Historical     -- Kytö, Merya and Matti Rissanen (1993) “General introduction”. In Early English in the computer age, ed. Matti Rissanen, et al. Mouton de Gruyter. 1-17. OR
-- Davies, Mark (2005) "Advanced research on syntactic and semantic change with the Corpus del Español". In Claus Pusch, et al (eds), Romance Corpus Linguistics II: Corpora and Diachronic Linguistics. Guntar Naar. 203-14. (Password: byu_ling)
T APR 1       "     " Study on historical variation 

 

   Biber, Douglas (1998) Historical and Stylistic Investigations. In Corpus linguistics: Investigating language structure and use. Cambridge UP. 203-29.
Th 3 Multilingual corpora     Lawson, Ann (2001) “Collecting, aligning, and analyzing parallel corpora”. In Small Corpus Studies and ELT: Theory and practice, ed. Mohsen Ghadessy, et al. John Benjamins. 279-310. OR
Borin, Lars (2002) “…and never the twain shall meet?” In Parallel corpora, parallel worlds, ed. Lars Borin. Rodopi. 1-25.
T 8 Teaching   170-197  
Th 10      "     "   198-213 Articles
T 15 Presentations of projects      
Tues 22 FINAL EXAM 7:00-10:00 AM (8:30)