Some of the online corpora British National Corpus Bank of English CORIS FidaPLUS: Good link: Comparison between the translation part of the corpus and a corpus of texts of the same genre, written in the target language for the translation corpus, reveals a tendency towards what we might call the Eliza Doolittle phenomenon: the translated texts, more than the texts in the control corpus, tend to contain those TL phrases, structures, and so on, which, from a comparative point of view, seem particularly characteristic of the TL. What can a corpus tell us? Translational studies: Parallel corpus studies can reveal characteristics of translated texts, such as tendencies towards explicitness and avoidance of repetition. What can a corpus tell us? Word frequency How frequent a word / word form is (copared to other words)? Lexical information Which word frequently coocur? Which affixes can a word have? Syntactical information In which syntactical structures can a word occur? Semantical information What are the possible meanings of a word? Pragmatic information In which texts can we find a word? What stylistic inforamtion does a word or it's context bear? Does the usage of a word stagnate, is the frequency increasing or decreasing? Keywords Concordance KWIC (Keyword in Context) Type / Token Tag / Lemma Collocation Types of corpora Kinds of corpora: Medium: written texts / spoken language Size: referential corpora / specialized corpora Time span: synchronic/diachronic corpora Tagging: lemmatized / POS-tagged corpus Language: mono- or multilingual corpora: paralell comparable translationalД¬orpus usage Lexicography Descriptive Grammars Translational tools and studies Foreign languages learning Socio-linguistic studies Language technologies Guidelines of the Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards (Guidelines of the Expert Advisory Group on Language Engineering Standards, 1996) Big collections of modern texts Electronic form Representative for language/dialect Base for desctiptive studies (not prescriptive!)Д«rief hystory of corpus linguistics 1964: Brown corpus (1 M words) John Sinclair and the Cobuild-Revolution => Bank of English (470 M), British National Corpus (100 M) => Other languages: Czec, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovac, вЂ¦) Web as corpus: with the digital revolution, more and more texts are available on the net => programs that build corpora using on-line texts (WebBootCat, ) Its constituent pieces of language are documented as to their origins and provenance. Computer corpusComputer corpus: a corpus which is encoded in a standardised and homogeneous way for open-ended retrieval tasks.

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