Neuphilologisches Institut
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

HAUPTSEMINAR:
CORPUS LINGUISTICS

Oliver M. Traxel

SS 15
Tu 8-10

Room: HS 6


SCHEDULE

Here you find the suggested course schedule for this semester. Some minor variation may occur. All students are expected to give presentations on the respective topics. Some suggested base literature for your presentations (see Bibliography) is indicated in the schedule. However, you are required to consult further sources, as found, for example, in the bibliographies of the respective publications. One particular important publication is A. Lüdeling and M. Kytö, ed., Corpus Linguistics: An International Handbook, 2 vols. (Berlin, 2009) (UB), which covers all topics and many more; for those attached to the university network vol. 1 is available here, vol. 2 is available here. Another recommended publication is the collection of articles found in A. O'Keeffe and M. McCarthy, ed., The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (London, 2010) (UB).


Session Date Topic Some Suggested Base Literature Presentation
         
1. 21.4. Introduction    
2. 28.4. The Analysis and Interpretation of Corpora Anderson & Corbett, ch. 2; Lindquist, ch. 2; McEnery & Hardie, ch. 2 Verena Kosch, Fabian Müller, Iuliia Rudchenko
3. 5.5. Lexis Anderson & Corbett, ch. 3 (part); Lindquist, ch. 3 Katharina Augustin, Deniz Kol, Andre Scheuring
4. 12.5. Collocation and Colligation Anderson & Corbett, ch. 3 (part); Lindquist, ch. 4; McEnery & Hardie, ch. 6.2 Vanessa Fischer, Robin Spieß, Matthias Stumpf
5. 19.5. Phrases Lindquist, ch. 5; Moon Johanna Dotterweich, Elisabeth Sappl, Tanja Schaupp
  26.5. no class due to Pentecost break    
6. 2.6. Grammar Anderson & Corbett, ch. 4; Lindquist, ch. 7 Serap Oezcamur, Büsra Vural, Aylin Özak
7. 9.6. Discourse Anderson & Corbett, ch. 5; Baker (2006) Lena Geis, Miriam Heck, Christine Popa
8. 16.6. Pronunciation Adolphs & Carter; Anderson & Corbett, ch. 6 Yan Lu, Nicolai Pöhner, Marco Sopp
9. 23.6. Sociolinguistic and Functional Issues (Diastratic and Diaphasic Variation) Anderson & Corbett, ch. 7; Baker (2010); Lindquist, ch. 8; McEnery & Hardie, ch. 5.5 Anastasiia Evstafeva, Inga Heidland, Vera Katzenberger
10. 30.6. Language Change and International Varieties (Diachronic and Diatopic Variation);
Discussion of Coursework 		Lindquist, ch. 9; McEnery & Hardie, chs. 5.2 & 5.3 Elisabeth Maader
11. 7.7. The Web as a Corpus;
Final Discussion 		Hundt, Nesselhauf & Biewer; Lindquist, ch. 10; McEnery & Hardie, chs. 1.4.2 & 3 Benjamin Buchtala, David Dell
  3.8. Final Submission of Coursework (10-12 o'clock, HiWi office)  


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