Index of Pages

• Corpus Linguistics: A Practical Web-based Course
   
  
  
  • Using WordSmith for Corpus-based Reasearch
     
    
    
    • Introduction to WordSmith and Browsing Corpus Files
       
      
      
      • About This Session
         
        
      • Browsing Corpus Files -- What is a Corpus?
         
        
      • Meet the BNC
         
        
      • Using WordSmith Concordancer
         
         
        
    • Looking at Language Variation using WordSmith Concord
       
      
      
      • Categories in LOB/FLOB/Brown/Frown
         
        
      • Historical change: the modal verb "shall"
         
        
      • Regional Variation: "in (the) light of" in British and American English
         
        
      • Extra Practice
         
         
        
    • Word Frequency Lists and Keyword Analysis
       
      
      
      • Making Wordlists
         
        
      • Keyword Analysis: Comparing two lists
         
        
      • Finding Key Keywords and their Associates
         
        
      • Extra Practice
         
         
        
    • Looking at part-of-speech annotation in WordSmith
       
      
      
      • Introduction to part-of-speech annotation and the BNC Sampler
         
        
      • Variation across part-of-speech for "talk"
         
        
      • Comparing frequencies for corpora of different sizes
         
        
      • Phrasal verbs
         
        
      • WordSmith Review Questions
         
         
        
  • BNCweb: The British National Corpus via the Internet
     
    
    
    • Introduction to BNCweb and the British National Corpus
       
      
      
      • Introduction to the British National Corpus
         
        
      • Logging on to BNCweb
         
        
      • Using Quick Query and Browsing Corpus Files
         
        
      • Using KWIC View and Starting a New Query
         
         
        
    • More on BNCweb
       
      
      
      • Variation according to speaker type: the word "lovely"
         
        
      • Thinning Queries
         
        
      • Sorting Queries
         
        
      • Collocations
         
         
        
    • Refining BNCweb Queries and Using Log Likelihood
       
      
      
      • Thinking about the problem: "start" and "begin"
         
        
      • Looking at Distribution
         
        
      • Getting Collocations
         
        
      • Testing for Significance: Log Likelihood
         
         
        
  • DIY Corpora: Building and Using Your Own Corpora
     
    
    
    • Building DIY Corpora
       
      
      
      • Text Collection: Your Own Texts
         
        
      • Text Collection: Text Archives
         
        
      • Managing and Exploiting Files
         
        
      • Glossary of Useful Terms
         
         
        
    • Headers in DIY Corpora
       
      
      
      • Textual versus Extra-textual Information
         
        
      • Queries based on header information
         
        
      • A Sample Header
         
        
      • Using CLAWS over the Web
         
         
        
  • Index of Pages