ANLISIS GRAMATICAL DEL I NGLS II

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Anlisis Gramatical del Ingls II

Corpus design and construction Review Questions

1.- Read S. Hunstons, Ch. 2 The corpus as object: design and

purpose from her book Corpora in Applied Linguistics, and answer
the questions below:

1. Size: is there an ideal size for a corpus? What determines

what size a corpus should be?
2. Content: what is the importance of the following two factors:
what is available, and what the corpus is going to be used
for?
3. Representativeness: explain the meaning of this statement
from Hunston: being representative inevitably involves
knowing what the character of the 'whole is".
4. Permanence: what does this mean? Why is it important?
5. Discuss briefly the different ways in which a corpus might be
used (p33-37), and how this relates to corpus design.

2.- Read Ch. Meyers Ch.2 Planning the construction of a corpus

from his book English Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction and answer
the study questions at the end of the chapter (pp. 53-54).

ANLISIS GRAMATICAL DEL I NGLS II | CORPUS DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION