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Corpus
Learning Outcome
• Students are able to use corpus in their
research
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OUTLINE
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Definition of corpus
Function of corpus
Kinds of corpus
Using the corpus
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Definition of corpus
• A collection of written or spoken texts
• Sources of the texts: newspaper,
magazines, novels, spoken language
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Function of corpus
• To find the various texts to be used in
researches such as:
• The frequency of certain words
• The use of certain words
• The real use of the parts of speech
• The real use of grammar
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Kinds of Corpus in Mark Davies’
– http://davies-linguistics.byu.edu/personal/
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
385+ million words (US, 1990-2008)
British National Corpus* 100 million words (UK, 1980s1993)
TIME Corpus 100 million words (US, 1923-present)
OED Corpus of Historical English* 37 million words (Old
Eng-1900s)
Corpus del Español 100 million words (1200s-1900s)
Corpus do Português 45 million words (1300s-1900s)
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Practice
• Practising corpus in the lab
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