1. Introduction

Basic info

time: Thursday 12:30 - 2:00 pm

room: S131 (main faculty building, located in the back wing, accessible from the courtyard)

structure: 45 minutes lecture + 45 minutes seminar

Timetable

1.         5/10     Introduction to the course, first reading assignment

2.         12/10    History and development of language corpora (pre-electronic, 1^st generation, 2^nd generation)

3.         19/10    Corpus characteristics and design (incl. annotation, lemmatization, tagging), types of corpora

4.         26/10    Basic notions of corpus linguistics (frequency, distribution, representativeness, concordance etc.)

5.         2/11      Corpora in grammar and diachronic studies

6.         9/11      Corpora in lexical studies and lexicography

7.         16/11    Corpora in contrastive linguistics and translation studies

8.         23/11    Corpora in stylistics and literary studies

9.         30/11    Corpora in discourse studies (MD-CADS)

10.       7/12      Corpora in language learning and teaching (L1, L2)

11.       14/12    Corpora in forensic linguistics

12.       21/12    Corpora in sociolinguistics

13.       5/1/17   Final test (additional dates upon request)