Introduction to Corpus Linguistics

A general Corpus is a collection of what?

• Only conversations

• Only texts

• Only linguistic features

• Only phrases

What is language performance?

• Language in Use

• Ability to use a language

• Understanding how to use a language

• Choosing grammatically correct structures

What is language competence?

• Language in Use

• Ability to use a language

• Understanding how to use a language

• Choosing grammatically correct structures

What is a linguistic register?

• It is how a speaker uses a language in certain situations

• It describes different linguistic fields

• Another term used to describe grammatical features

• An equivalent of the term "linguistic unit"

Can we consider conversations between friends, poems, debates, discussions in language learning courses to be registers?

• Yes

• No

What makes a corpus authentic?

• Representation of various genres of the language in use

• Representation of various registers of the language in use

• Number of words

• Number of dialects

What is a big corpus? The one which consists of... (mark the correct answers)

• 500000 words

• 10000 words

• 50000 words

• 100000 words

What may restrict the use of a big corpus?

• absence of focus on a particular area of research

• lack of representativeness

• absence of particular collocations

• universal status: it can provide many examples that are difficult to process

What is the situational variability?

• presence of various registers and genres

• presence of various linguistic forms

• presence of texts of different length

• presence of texts in different languages

What is the linguistic variability?

• presence of various registers and genres

• presence of various linguistic forms

• presence of texts of different length

• presence of texts in different languages