Corpus Linguistics

by Tony McEnery and Andrew Wilson

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996

An introductory course on corpus linguistics, based on the book, is now accessible on the Web.

You follow the readings and examples at your own speed, and complete a computer-marked `test' at the end of each unit.

To gain the full benefit from this course, you will also need a copy of the book, so that you can read about these and further topics in more depth.

Supplementary material

To understand the pages, you will need to look at:

• the list of part-of-speech tags
• the list of grammatical parsing brackets

• a sample of grammatical parsing from the APHB corpus
• a samples of grammatical parsing from the Canadian Hansard corpus
• a text tagged by the CLAWS program for parts of speech in vertical format (Daniel Defoe)
• the same part-of-speech tagged text in SGML format
• a sample of a part-of-speech frequency lexicon induced from the spoken part of the British National Corpus

Some useful corpus-related links

• ICAME - corpora and corpus-related information, including Bengt Altenberg's bibliography of English-language corpus research
• COBUILD
• Survey of English Usage
• UCREL at Lancaster University
• British National Corpus (BNC)
• Multilingual Parallel Aligned CRATER Corpus
• English Department at the University of Helsinki - home of the Helsinki diachronic and dialect corpora. You can get the diachronic corpus from ICAME.
• Lampeter Corpus - another historical corpus