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What are the advantages of working with smaller corpora?
What are the names of some of the English corpora?
What are the two approaches to using corpora in language teaching/learning?
What is data-driven-learning (+ provide an example)
What is semantic prosody and why is it important?
What does corpus evidence tell us about 'English as a whole'?
Explain the importance of frequency [= factor of past observation] & probability [factor of future use] in the
corpus research methodology
What can high-frequency semantic words tell us about a corpus?
How can cultural stereotypes be captured through word frequencies in a corpus? (example)
Is looking at frequencies alone sufficient for describing the typical use(s) of a lexical item?
Name and briefly define 5 different types of corpora.
Why do we need corpora?
Why is intuition important in corpus research?
What are the limitations of corpora?
Explain the phraseological way of looking at some confusables (e.g. interested vs interesting)
Present a skeleton overview of the history of corpus linguistics.
Why was/is Chomsky opposed to corpora?
What are 'reduced tagsets'? (some other authors discuss the complexity/refinement of a tagset)?
What are treebanks?
Which kinds of annotation can be performed automatically and which cannot?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of (heavily) annotated corpora?
What is meant by the representativeness of a corpus?
What is the relation between the qualitative and quantitative stages of corpus research?
Should an adjective which can function both predicatively and attributively be regarded as a central
adjective or a typical adjective?
What is the difference between typicality and prototypicality?
What, Hunston claims, is the connection between a word's meaning and its patterns of usage (co-text)?
What are ‘frames’, and why are they useful?
What procedure does Hunston propose for detecting typical patterns of high-frequency words, which
produce thousands of concordance lines?
Explain how something/nothing ADJ about/in him/her works as a 'probe'.
Prove the case that corpus evidence can also be of service in showing ‘what the world is like’.
What are the node (word) and the span, with respect to the calculation of (textual/statistical) collocation?
Is language distributed randomly?
In general terms, how do we interpret MI results in contrast to t-score results?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a plain text corpus?
Is it possible to research a corpus without a concordancer?
Should corpus annotation be done automatically?
Define: entailment, hyponym, and superordinate. Provide an example.
Are very and pretty [adverb] synonymous?
What is collocation?
Why is collocational competence part of communicative rather than linguistic competence?
What is the difference between the open-choice principle and the idiom principle?
What is a schema and how does the concept refer to collocational knowledge?
Why are collocation statistics useful?
What kinds of variation can we expect to occur in phraseological units?
Summarise briefly the discussion of the semantic prosody of dealings. How can we account for the use of
cordial dealings in one of the contexts?
What is peculiar about green fundamentalism and the use of semantic prosody in the media?
What is colligation? Give 3 examples.
What was the General Service List of English Words, and who was it by?
What were the limitations of the early corpus-based vocabulary studies?
What was the significance of the Cobuild Project?
What is DDL, and who originated it? What is the role of the teacher using DDL?
What does Hunston mean by the statement that "DDL does not ‘teach’"?
How is the 'idiom principle' different from ‘lexical chunking’?
What is the most far-reaching impact of corpora on language teaching?
When did the first computerised collections of learner language emerge?
What are the three types of SLA data used by researchers?
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What were some of the limitations of early learner corpora?
Why does the exploration of native English corpora not suffice?
What is the difference between ESL and EFL?
What is Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis?
Within the ICLE Project: what is LOCNESS and why is it sometimes criticised as a control corpus?
Explain the difference between "hypothesis-finding" and hypothesis-testing approaches in corpus research?
What is the difference between 'underuse' (sometimes also called 'underrepresentation', PK) and 'avoidance',
in the context of learner language research?
What error-tagged corpora do you know?
What is the principle of divisibility in the names of POS-tags or error-codes?
What does it mean that errors can be embedded?
What is the use of error statistics?
What is the average success rate of automatic POS taggers?
What is the connection between POS tagging and parsing?
What is the difference between a sentence and a T-unit?
What is the dispersion / distribution of an item in a corpus and why is this information useful?
How can frequency lists be applied to discover facts about learner language?
What is the difference between TTR and LD ?
What three techniques of querying a POS-tagged corpus can be applied to probe grammar use in a corpus?
How does Leech regard the notions of 'overuse' and 'underuse' with respect to learner corpus research?
What kinds of studies will the CD-ROM interface to the ICLE corpus enable?
Characterise PICLE.
What is the difference between the corpus-based vs the corpus-driven approaches to corpus work?
What is a balanced corpus?
What is a pedagogic corpus?
Briefly characterise the London-Lund Corpus.
Briefly characterise the BNC.
What is a monitor corpus?
What are hapax (legomena) and what is know about coverage of texts/corpora?
What does it mean that a corpus is finite?
Name 5 different corpus design criteria.
What are you searching for when entering this pattern on the Cobuild Direct service: shine@+3on ?
What are you searching for when entering this pattern on PK’s online concordancers: \bas a \w* of\b ?
What are you searching for when entering this pattern on PK’s online concordancers:
\b(go|went|gone|goes)\b ?
What do the following symbols mean:
a) \s+
b) \w+
c) [A-Z]
d) (yes){1,4}
How can we study cohesion in texts using a corpus-based method:
a) briefly present the case of general noun phrases: give examples of anaphoric/cataphoric reference
b) present the case of general verbs: give examples of anaphoric/cataphoric reference
How can we study the use of metaphor using a corpus-based method?
How can we study the use of metaphor using a corpus-driven method?
What evidence on the metaphorical vs literal use of language does Partington's study provide?
How can "unusuality" in language be studied using corpus data?
What are the main four mechanisms which speakers employ to manipulate "canonical forms" of expected
patterns?
How does relexicalisation work?
"Normal communication" (i.e. in accordance with expected patterns) vs use of variation ("unusuality"): how
do the two interact in language production/reception?