LING 2990 A (CRN: 15200)
Linguistics: Corpus Linguistics
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Section Description
This course will examine how to investigate linguistic questions from an empirical perspective using collections of texts, or corpora. Students will learn how to analyze corpora for morphological, syntactic, semantic, and discourse phenomena, as well as how these phenomena vary across registers, populations and time periods. Students will learn important principles in corpus design and data annotation, as well as how to query corpora for useful linguistic information. Programming knowledge is helpful, but not required for this course.
Section Expectation
From this course, students will learn: - The properties of a well-constructed corpus - The benefits and limits of empirical data in linguistic analysis - Methods of data annotation and inter-annotator agreement - How to query a corpus for different types of linguistic information (morphological, syntactic, semantic, and discourse) Students taking this course at the 3000 level (3990) will gain further experience through a corpus-based term project.
Evaluation
Undergraduate evaluation: Homeworks - 60% Exams - 40% Advanced Evaluation (3990) Homeworks - 50% Exams - 30% Project - 20%
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