CJp022 Introduction to Corpus Linguistics

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2018
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Hana Žižková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc.
Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Petra Rozbořilová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
CJp022/01: Wed 13:00–13:50 učebna 72, H. Žižková
CJp022/02: Wed 8:00–8:50 učebna 72, H. Žižková
CJp022/03: Wed 7:00–7:50 učebna 72, H. Žižková
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with searching in the linguistic corpus and to show them different possibilities of acquiring and processing language data.
The course takes into account the accreditation requirements for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able:
1. To use Czech National Corpus, to find not only loud, morphological or lexical phenomena in the corpus SYN2015, but to create Query to find syntactical phenomena.
2. To Classify founded language phenomena using tolls of Czech Natonal Corpus and to elaborated them.
3. To choose suitable method of research of language phenomena in Czech National Corpus solving special problems.
4. To work with the corpora of spoken Czech.
Syllabus
  • 1. Types of corpora, characteristics of them. Corpora of written and spoken Czech.
  • 2. Morphological variants in Czech National Corpus; concurence of double-forms.
  • 3. Words and multiverbal units in Czech National Corpus. Phraseology in Czech National Corpus;
  • 4.Word-forming concurrents in CNK.
  • 5. Creating of queris for seeking of syntactical structures in corpus SYN2010. Combination of queries and other tools of interface KonText (positive and negative filters).
  • 6. Creating of subcorpora.
  • 7.Evaluation of linguistic data of CNK.
Literature
  • TUŠKOVÁ, Jana Marie. Deklinační systém femininních oikonym v češtině. Synchronní pohled na základě Českého národního korpusu. (The declension system of Czech feminine oikonyms. Synchronous view based on the Czech National Corpus). 1st ed. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, s. r. o. / Ústav Českého národního korpusu, 2011, 289 pp. Studie z korpusové lingvistiky, sv. 17. ISBN 978-80-7422-138-5. info
  • ČERMÁK, František, Karel KUČERA and Vladimír PETKEVIČ. Korpusová lingvistika Praha 2011, 2 Výzkum a výstavba korpusů. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, Ústav Českého národního korpusu, 2011. Studie z korpusové lingvistiky 15. ISBN 978-80-7422-115-6. info
  • ČERMÁK, František, Karel KUČERA, Vladimír PETKEVIČ and Alexander ROSEN. Korpusová lingvistika, Praha 2011. 3. Gramatika a značkování korpusů. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2011, 225 pp. Studie z korpusové lingvistiky 16. ISBN 978-80-7422-116-3. info
  • Grammar & Corpora 2007 :selected contributions from the conference Gramar and Corpora, Sept. 25-27, 2007, Liblice. Edited by František Štícha - Mirjam Fried. Vyd. 1. Praha: Academia, 2008, 443 s. ISBN 9788020016348. info
  • TUŠKOVÁ, Jana Marie. Variantní a dubletní tvary v současné deklinaci apelativních feminin. (Variant grammar form and doublets in the contemporary declension of female appelatives). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2006, 175 pp. Spisy Pedagogické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity 58. ISBN 80-210-4138-2. info
  • Studie z korpusové lingvistiky. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 2000, 531 s. ISBN 80-7184-893-X. info
  • Manuál lexikografie. Edited by František Čermák - Renata Blatná. 1. vyd. Jinočany: H & H, 1995, 283 s. ISBN 80-85787-23-7. info
Teaching methods
A seminar - problem method, controlled discussion on the professional issues of the course.
Working with Czech National Corpus. Analysis of founded language phenomena.
Assessment methods
Credit requierements: Students have to presenttheir competence in working with the ČNK, it shall be proved by testing at last seminary. Students have to manage 7 of 10 practice taaks of test. During the semestr student shall work at the seminary regulary, too.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://wiki.korpus.cz/doku.php/manualy:kontext:index
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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