Aims and Objectives

Curriculum is expected to cover:

The scope of Corpus Linguistics, and how we can use it to study the English Language

How to use corpora to analyse issues in syntax

How to navigate copora, particularly ICE-GB and DCPSE

How to engage in syntactic argumentation

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, participants will have:

Acquired a basic but solid knowledge of the terminology, concepts and methodologies used in English Corpus Linguistics

Had a practical experience working with two state -of-the-art corpora and a corpus tool (ICECUP)

Have learned about syntactic argumentation and gained practical experience in the methodology

Further Details

This two day course at the University College London exclusively for students of Meiji University, Japan. Eligible students will be given a password to allow them to book.

Most of the practical teaching focuses on two particular corpora, both developed at UCL.These are the British Component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB), and the Diachronic Corpus of Present-day Spoken English (DCPSE). These consist of authentic samples written and spoken English and are unusual in that they are fully parsed, i.e they contain a complete grammatical tree analysis for every sentence. Students will use ICEUP software to explore these resources.

The course tutors are Bas Arts, Guyanne Wilson and Sean Wallis.