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Corpus ISU
- corpus
Backgrounder
- corpus linguistics
- previous work
What can be done with corpora
- on actual corpus
Concluding remarks
It depends on both
It makes extensive use
quantitative and
of computers for
qualitative analytical
analysis.
techniques.
Can process
Can avoid human
machine-readable
bias, hence more
data accurately
reliable
and consistently
Frown F-LOB
The Survey of
English Usage
Corpus Kolhapur (Indian Wellington (New Australian Corpus of
English) Zealand); English (ACE);
• Used in the development
of Quirk et al (1985)
01 04
02 03
see the frequency see concordance
of a word or limit by and lines ("Keywords in
phrase by date or compare words and find "collocates" Context"), to see
variety or genre (or phrases in different (nearby words) of a patterns and
by other sections sections of the given word, to phrases in which
corpus (e.g. words investigate the the word occurs
of the corpus)
that are more meaning and usage of
frequent in April 2020 a word (following the
than in March 2020) maxim that "you can
tell a lot about a word
by the words that it
hangs out with")
u Lexicography
u Semantics
u Lexical studies u Pragmatics
u Grammatical studies
u Stylistics
u Register/genre analysis
u Literary study
u Language variation u Sociolinguistics
u Contrastive analysis
u Discourse analysis
u Translation studies
u Forensic linguistics
u Language change u Computational linguistics
u Language teaching
u …
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… outside linguistics
u KILIG
u it can be used as part of the phrase:
u "kilig to the bones"
u compounds "kilig factor"
u "kilig moment
Other words:
- Teleserye
- Vlog
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October 2018 entries
SUITS, S8
u Compounding/blending
u Camwhore, attentionwhore
u Foodporn, catporn, flowerporn, cloudporn
u Eargasm, foodgasm, bedgasm
u Staycation
u Infomercial
u Frienemies
u Webinar, webisode
u Guesstimate
u Depassivization of progressives
u The ticket is printing [is being printed]
u Get-passive over be-passive
uI got hired [I was hired]
u The man got shot. [The man was shot]
u spread of “singular” they
u Everybody came in their black suit.
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Grammatical Studies
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100.0
0.0
Australia Canada New Ireland Great Philippines India Singapore Hong East Nigeria Jamaica
Zealand Britain Kong Africa
Spoken Written
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pr
ep
o sit
io
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
0
50
na
lp
hr
as
e
fin
it e
cl
a us
sin e
gl
e
ad
ve
ad rb
ve
rb
ph
ra
s e
no
un
ph
ra
no se
nf
in
ite
cl
a us
Total
ve e
rb
l es
pr s cl
ep a us
o sit e
io
na
pr lc
la
Adjuncts in Phil English (Morales, 2015)
ep
o sit
us
e
io
na
la
dv
er
b
(b
la
nk
)
5/23/22
Total
Disjuncts in World Englishes (Dita, 2017)
350 332
297
300
ll y
ly
tl y
ly
ly
sly
ly
ly
lly
te
in
ul
te
al
ia
ra
en
ou
f
rta
sic
na
na
nt
pe
tu
ar
vi
se
ce
ba
na
tu
rtu
ob
ho
es
r
ap
fo
fo
un
u Bully
u Autistic