NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 語料庫語言學(6037)
(Eng.) Corpus Linguistics
Offering Dept Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Elective Credits 3 Teacher Ching-Yu Yang
Department Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures/Graduate Language 中/英文 Semester 2025-SPRING
Course Description This course provides an in-depth introduction to corpus linguistics, a methodology that utilizes large collections of linguistic data to investigate language patterns and phenomena. Students will learn how to compile, annotate, and analyze corpora, and gain insights into language variation, discourse analysis, language acquisition, and computational linguistics. Through hands-on practical exercises and research projects, students will develop skills in forming a hypothesis, retrieving data closely related to the hypothesis and examining it quantitively and qualitatively with corpus-based investigations.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
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By the end of this course, students will:
1. Understand the principles and methodology of corpus linguistics.
2. Learn how to annotate, and analyze linguistic corpora.
3. Develop critical thinking skills in interpreting corpus data and conducting empirical research.
4. Enhance practical skills in using corpus analysis software and tools.
topic Discussion/Production
Exercises
Lecturing
Written Presentation
Attendance
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Internship
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 (2/18) Orientation
Week 2 (2/25) What is corpus linguistics? (AS. Ch 1-2)
Week 3 (3/4) Collocation (AS. Ch. 7)
Week 4 (3/11) Corpus & Grammar (AS. Ch. 8)
Week 5 (3/18) Corpus & Morphology (AS. Ch. 9)
Week 6 (3/25) Corpus & Text (AS. Ch. 10)
Week 7 (4/1) No class: Make-up holiday for University Anniversary and Annual Sports Meet
Week 8 (4/8) Corpus & Metaphor (AS. Ch. 11)
Week 9 (4/15) Corpus and Corpus tools; Term paper paper topic discussion
Week 10 (4/22) Finding and Preparing Your Data
Week 11 (4/29) Quantifying Research Questions (AS. Ch. 3, Ch.5)
Week 12 (5/6) Individual Conferences (I): Term paper outline
Week 13 (5/13) Statistics and Significance Test (Ch. 6)
Week 14 (5/20) Selected Paper Presentation: Duanmu (2012); Xiao et al. (2006)
Week 15 (5/27) Term Paper Oral Presentation
Week 16 (6/3) Individual Conferences (II): Comments on oral presentation
Week 17 (6/10) Self-directed Learning
Week 18 (6/17) Self-directed Learning
Evaluation
Attendance 15%
Assignments 15%
Term paper topic 3%
Term paper outline 7%
Selected Paper Presentation: 10%
Oral presentation 10%
Final project proposal 10%
Final project 30%
Textbook & other References
1. Anatol Stefanowitsch (2020). Corpus Linguistics: A guide to the methodology. Berlin: Language Science Press. This book is open access
2. McEnery, T., & Hardie, A. (2011). Corpus linguistics: Method, theory and practice. Cambridge University Press.
Papers:
1. Duanmu, S. (2012). Word-length preferences in Chinese: a corpus study. Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 21, 89-114.
2. Xiao, R., McEnery, T., & Qian, Y. (2006). Passive constructions in English and Chinese: A corpus-based contrastive study. Languages in contrast, 6(1), 109-149.
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
iLearning 3
Office Hours
By appointment
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