Subject: Corpus Linguistics Teacher Name: Miss Aqsa Batool

Class: BS English Semester: 6th

Course Code: LNG-512 Total Marks: 100
Credit Hours: 3 (3-0) Date:

Objective

Read the statement carefully and mark the correct option. 20

1. When you gather data from Twitter and check whether the tweet is positive or negative, what is
this called?
a. Sentiment Analysis
b. POS Tagging
c. Concordance
d. Antconc.
2. Which of the following tool shows the raw text of individuals files?
a. File view tool
b. Concordance plot tool
c. Concordance tool
d. N-Gram tool
3. The flexibility of multi-dimensional analysis of linguistics research is also demonstrated by
various _________applications
a. Sociolects
b. regional variation
c. diachronic register variation
d. all of these
4. Which of the following languages are included in the British National Corpus (BNC)?
a. English only
b. English and French
c. English and German
d. English, French, and German
5. What is the purpose of the British National Corpus (BNC) Sampler?
a. To provide free access to a limited portion of the corpus
b. To offer language learning resources for beginners
c. To showcase the most frequently used words in the corpus
 d. To promote research collaborations among linguists
6. Which organization was responsible for the initial funding and creation of the British National
Corpus (BNC)?
a. British Council
b. British Academy
c. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
d. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
7. Which of the following is NOT true about the British National Corpus (BNC)?
a. It contains a wide range of text types, including fiction, newspapers, and academic
articles.
b. It includes both written and spoken language samples.
c. It is primarily focused on American English.
d. It provides a valuable resource for linguistic research and analysis.
8. In which application of corpus is bound to provide better information about the meaning,
frequency and will therefore be a major resource for lexicography.
a. application to linguistic research
b. application to reference publishing
c. to natural language processing
d. application to language teaching
9. Which corpora is used for children's language?
a. Data- driven language learning
b. Corpora of learner's language
c. Developmental corpora
d. Frequency studies
10. Total number of writers in ICNALE:
a. 2800
b. 5700
c. 1316265
d. 5000
11. COBUILD stands for:
a. Collins Birmingham University International Language Database
b. College Birmingham University International Language Database
c. Collins British University Inter-Language Database
d. Collins Birmingham University International Literature Data
12. Corpora and corpus methodology have led to a renewal of the study of ________ more or less
fixed strings, which are used repeatedly.
a. Clauses
b. Phrases
c. Sentences
d. Grammar
13. Who investigated the use of hedges by male and female speakers in different academic disciplines
in MICASE?
a. Poos and Simpson (2002)
b. Shakespeare (1880)
c. Rissanen (2004)
d. None of the Above
14. In July 2008 _________ announced that their processing systems had come across 1 trillion
(1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web.
a. Google
b. Wikipedia
c. Corpus
d. Twitter
15. Bank of English started in 1980 used for making the:
a. Oxford Dictionary
b. Brown corpus
c. BNC
d. COBUILD Dictionary
16. In the field of lexicography, the British National Corpus (BNC) is used to:
a. Create comprehensive dictionaries and thesauri
b. Develop language learning textbooks
c. Identify common collocations and word associations
d. Generate automated translations of text passages
17. How was the British National Corpus (BNC) collected?
a. Through online surveys and questionnaires
b. By recording and transcribing conversations and interviews
c. By extracting text from published books and articles
d. By analyzing social media posts and online forums
18. Tagset for -ing form of verb "DO" is.
a. VHD
b. VDN
c. VDG
d. VHD
19. In both the clusters tool and N-Grams tool, search terms can be specified:
a. Words
b. Word list
c. Paragraph
d. Statement
20. How many words Brown Corpus consists of?
a. 1.5 million
b. 1 million
c. 2 million
d. None of these
 Subjective

Attempt all the Questions. (20*4=80)

1. What do you know about AntConc. Tool. Write a detailed note on Concordance Tool and
Concordance Plot Tool. 20
2. Corpus is a branch of linguistics or a methodology used for quantitative studies. Discuss.
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3. Biber (1988) found six dimensions of register variation for English. Discuss all the
dimensions in detail.
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4. Write down the applications of British National Corpus. 20