Prerequisites
Familiarity with basic notion in general linguistics, particularly syntax, semantics and pragmatics, as they are offered in the first year course in the Bachelor's degrees in Humanities or Modern Languages.
Reccomended or required readings
Introduction to corpora
Lenci A., Montemagni S., Pirrelli V. 2005. Testo e Computer, Roma: Carocci, Cap. 1: “I dati della lingua”.
Sinclair J. 2005. “Corpus and Text - Basic Principles”. In Wynne M. (ed.) Developing Linguistic Corpora: a Guide to Good Practice, Oxford: Oxbow Books: 1-16.
Annotation and mark-up
Lenci A., Montemagni S., Pirrelli V. 2005. Testo e Computer, Roma: Carocci, Cap. 8: “L’annotazione linguistica del testo”.
Leech G. 2005. “Adding Linguistic Annotation”. In Wynne M. (ed.) Developing Linguistic Corpora: a Guide to Good Practice, Oxford: Oxbow Books: 17-29.
Corpus Query Tools
Kilgarriff A., Rychly, P., Smrž, P. Tugwell,D. 2004. "The Sketch Engine". In Williams G. and S. Vessier (eds.), Proceedings of the XI Euralex International Congress, July 6-10, 2004, Lorient, France. 105-111.
Regular expressions
Thomas, J. 2016. Corpus Query Language in Details. In Discovering English with the Sketch Engine: A corpus-based approach to Language Exploration, Versatile Publisher, pp. 139-156.
Language Teaching and Learning
Chini, M. and Bosisio, C., 2014. Fondamenti di glottodidattica. Apprendere e insegnare le lingue oggi, Roma, Carocci, Cap. 4: "La didattica della L2."
Corpora for language learning and teaching
Baisa, V. and V. Suchomel. 2014. "SkELL Web Interface for English Language Learning". In A. Horák and P. Rychlý (eds.) Proceedings of Recent Advances in Slavonic Natural Language Processing, 63–70.
Available on Researchgate.
Granger, S. 2012. "Learner corpora". In Chapelle, C.A. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 3235–3242.
Available on Researchgate.
Kilgarriff, A., Marcowitz, F., Smith, S. and Thomas, J., 2015. "Corpora and language learning with the Sketch Engine and SKELL." In Revue française de linguistique appliquée, 20(1), pp.61-80. Available online.