"Corpus linguistics is the study of a language as that language is expressed in its text corpus..."
The steps involved in designing a corpus, including defining the scope, selecting texts and sources, sampling, and ensuring data accuracy and representativeness.
Definition of Corpus Design: Understanding what Corpus Design is and its importance in linguistics research.
Types of Corpora: Understanding the different types of corpora, such as language-specific corpora, diachronic corpora, genre-specific corpora, and specialized corpora, which serve different purposes.
Corpus Compilation: Understanding the process of creating a corpus, including the source selection, data processing, and encoding methods.
Sampling Methods: Understanding the various sampling methods used in corpus design, such as random sampling, stratified sampling, and snowball sampling.
Corpus Annotation: Understanding the process of adding linguistic information such as parts of speech, named entities, syntactic structures, co-reference, and coreference relations to a corpus, to facilitate analysis.
Corpus Management: Understanding how to manage a corpus, including data organization, documentation, and updating.
Corpus Size and Balance: Understanding the importance of corpus size and balance, as larger and more balanced corpora lead to more accurate and comprehensive results.
Corpus Analysis Tools: Understanding the software tools for analyzing corpora, such as Concordance, WordSmith Tools, and Antconc.
Corpus-based Research Methodology: Understanding how to use corpora to address specific research questions using quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
Ethical Issues: Understanding ethical considerations while compiling a corpus, such as privacy, informed consent, and intellectual property rights.
Monolingual corpus: A corpus containing texts in a single language.
Multilingual corpus: A corpus containing texts in multiple languages.
Comparable corpus: A corpus of texts in different languages or genres, with similar topics or themes, allowing for cross-linguistic or cross-genre comparison.
Parallel corpus: A corpus of texts in two or more languages that are translations of each other.
Diachronic corpus: A corpus consisting of texts from different time periods, used for historical analysis.
Synchronic corpus: A corpus consisting of texts from a single time period, used for contemporary analysis.
Specialized corpus: A corpus designed for a specific domain or area, such as medical or legal language.
Balanced corpus: A corpus in which the texts are representative of a particular genre, language, or time period.
Spoken corpus: A corpus consisting of transcribed speech or conversations, used for phonetic or sociolinguistic analysis.
Written corpus: A corpus consisting of written texts, used for stylistic or syntactic analysis.
Learner corpus: A corpus of texts produced by language learners, used for second language acquisition research.
Reference corpus: A corpus that sets a standard for a particular language or genre, used for comparison and contrast.
"Corpus linguistics proposes that a reliable analysis of a language is more feasible with corpora collected in the field..."
"The text-corpus method uses the body of texts written in any natural language to derive the set of abstract rules..."
"...collected in the field—the natural context ('realia') of that language..."
"Those results can be used to explore the relationships between that subject language and other languages..."
"The first such corpora were manually derived from source texts..."
"...but now that work is automated."
"Corpora have not only been used for linguistics research, they have also been used to compile dictionaries..."
"...starting with The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language in 1969..."
"John McHardy Sinclair advocates minimal annotation so texts speak for themselves..."
"The Survey of English Usage team (University College, London) advocate annotation..."
"...as allowing greater linguistic understanding through rigorous recording."
"Corpus linguistics proposes that a reliable analysis of a language is more feasible with corpora..."
"The text-corpus method uses the body of texts written in any natural language to derive the set of abstract rules..."
"Those results can be used to explore the relationships between that subject language and other languages..."
"The first such corpora were manually derived from source texts..."
"...but now that work is automated."
"Corpora have not only been used for linguistics research, they have also been used to compile dictionaries..."
"...starting with The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language in 1969..."
"Experts in the field have differing views about the annotation of a corpus..."