2. What is a corpus? |
Defining a corpus. Types of corpora. Main corpus resources for linguistic research. |
4. Corpus annotation |
Linguistic annotation and other types of annotation. |
6. Data analysis |
Quantitative and qualitative analyses. Normalised frequencies and frequency distribution. Statistical significance. |
8. Applications of corpora for the linguistic analysis of English |
Selection of case studies on lexicon, grammar, discourse markers, register variation, historical change, sociolinguistics, etc. |