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Corpus Linguistics
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20 Questions

1. BNC is static corpus.

A True B False

2. What is one of the usages of corpus?

A Provide the correct spelling B Provide the correct collocation

Provide a variety of language function Provide a variety of statistical

C D
functions

3. Why (not) Corpus?

A Offer positive evidences B Show more than their own content

Only show some paralinguistic Give information weather something is

C D
information possible

4. What is corpus?

A collection of naturally occurring An example of native conversation

A B
examples poem

An examples of sentences or texts A collection of naturally occurring

C D
examples of language or texts

5. The difference of general and specialized corpus is on the texts included into the
corpus.

A True B False
 6. The difference between static and dynamic corpus is in the time period of the texts

A True B False

7. The difference of monolingual and multilingual corpus is on the form of the texts

A False B True

8. The difference between synchronic and diachronic corpus is in the time period of the
texts

A True B False

9. The difference between static and dynamic corpus is in the numbers of the texts.

A False B True

10. Which is wrong about corpus?

A Designed with certain criteria B Design only for research

Compiled for certain purposes Using samples which are designed to

C D
be representative

11. The monitor corpus is frequently updated.

A False B True

12. The difference between native speakers corpus and non native speakers corpus is on
the origins of data.

A False B True

13. Multimodal corpus only consists of written text.

A False B True
14. COCA and BNC are specialized corpora.

A False B True

15. COCA is dynamic corpus.

A True B False

16. BNC and COCA are diachronic corpora.

A True B False

17. The difference of spoken and written corpus is on the language use of the texts

A True B False

18. Spoken corpus only includes conversations.

A False B True

19. BNC and COCA are mixed corpora.

A True B False

20. BNC and COCA are multilingual corpora.

A False B True
Answer Key

1. a 2. d 3. b 4. d

5. a 6. b 7. a 8. a

9. b 10. b 11. b 12. b

13. a 14. a 15. a 16. b

17. b 18. b 19. a 20. a