University of Mosul

College of Arts

Department of English

Ph.D in Linguistics

Corpus Linguistics 2018-2019

Course Instructor:Prof. Kamal H.Hussein

Required Texts

The main textbooks that will be used throughout the course are:

1. Graeme Kennedy ,1998. An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics

2.Winnie Chenge. 2012. Exploring Corpus Linguistics: Language in Action

3. Tony McEnery and Andrew Wilson .2001. Corpus Linguistics An

Introduction

4. Anne O'keeffe and Michael McCarthy.2010. The Routledge Handbook

of Corpus Linguistics (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics)

5.Charles F.Meyer.2002. English Corpus Linguistics: An Introduction

6. Laura Gavioli. 2005. Exploring Corpora for ESP learning

7. Roberta Facchinitte 2007 Corpus Linguistics 25 Years on

Course grades will be based on the following weighting:

Attendance/Homework/Participation

Mid-term Examinations (30%)

Final Examination 70%

 Corpus Linguistics 2018-2019

Outline of the Syllabus

Week Date Topic

1 Theoretical overview of the evolution of corpus linguistics
2 What is corpus linguistics?
3 What is corpus?
4 Issues in corpus design and compilation
5 Corpus_based description of English
Corpus analysis
6 The use of corpora in language studies (Selected branches of
7 linguistics)
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9 Mid-term Examination
10 Corpus linguistics and language teaching and learning
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12 Implications and applications of corpus_based analysis
13 Final Examination