CJc304 The Introduction to the Corpus Linguistics

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Ivana Kolářová, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Milena Šubrtová, Ph.D.
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
CJc304/01: Fri 6. 10. 17:00–19:50 učebna 28, Fri 13. 10. 8:00–10:50 učebna 72, Fri 15. 12. 12:00–14:50 učebna 72, I. Kolářová
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 course is focused on the fundamental working with the Czech National Corpus (CNC) and using the tools of CNC by searching language phenomena in the Corpus. The students should gain the abilities that can be used in the teaching praxis.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able:
1. To find loud, morphological or lexical phenomena in the corpus SYN2020. 2. To Classify founded language phenomena using tolls of Czech National Corpus and to elaborated them.
3. To choose a suitable method of research of language phenomena in Czech National Corpus solving special problems.
4. To use the corpora tools Frequency, Collocation.
Syllabus
  • 1. Types of corpora, characteristics of them. Corpora of written and spoken Czech.
  • 2. Basic query. Default attributes "lemma", "sublemma", "word", "lc".
  • 3. Advanced query. Default attributes "tag", "afun".
  • 4. Morphological variants in Czech National Corpus; concurence of double-forms.
  • 5. Words and multiverbal units in Czech National Corpus. Phraseology in Czech National Corpus;
  • 6.Word-forming concurrents in CNK.
  • 7. Creating of queris for seeking of syntactical structures in corpus SYN2020. Combination of queries and other tools of interface KonText (positive and negative filters).
  • 8. Creating of subcorpora.
  • 9.Evaluation of linguistic data of CNK.
  • 10. Application Word at a Glance.
Literature
  • https://wiki.korpus.cz/doku.php/manualy:kontext:index
  • https://wiki.korpus.cz/doku.php/kurz:uvod
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Klára. Česká morfologie a korpusy (Czech morphology and corpora). Vyd. 1. Praha: Karolinum, 2014, 236 pp. ISBN 978-80-246-2562-1. URL 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 present their competence in working with the ČNK, it shall be proved by seminary homework at the end of the semester. The work contents 6 tasks. Students have to manage 4 of 6 tasks to gain credit. During the semester student shall work at the seminary regularly, too.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 9 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2023, recent)
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