Corpus linguistics

Teaching results

Knowledge:
• General overview of the most essential phenomena and trends in corpus linguistics.
• Familiarising with the corpus terminology, various searching methods in corpus databases as well as with formation of regular expressions which enable exploring and evaluating of interdisciplinary language phenomena on morphological, grammatical and lexicological basis.
Competences:
• Use of quantitative and qualitative methods by means of which students can clarify obtained results from linguistics point of view
• Verifying hypotheses.
• Use of gained knowledge in other linguistic fields such as phraseology or lexicology, in the process of language teaching or translating the texts.
Skills:
• Applying of the gained linguistic knowledge when analysing different language phenomena
• Work with corpus databases (British National Corpus, SketchEngine, Slovak national corpus, Aranea corpora).
• Query monolingual, multilingual, general or specific, synchronous or historical corpus.
• Compiling one´s corpus and applying of the chosen linguistic method.