2015/2016

2017/2018

DM270

L-LIN/01 (GLOTTOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

PERCORSO COMUNE

3°

1st semester (25/09/2017 - 10/01/2018)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

JEZEK ELISABETTA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

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.

The course applies basic linguistics methods, resources and notions to the fields of language teaching and learning.

In this course we learn how to conduct corpus-based linguistic analysis, using methodologies and tools developed within corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. The student will be asked to set up and carry out an in-depth corpus-based analysis of a chosen linguistic phenomenon.

1. Types of corpora.
2. What counts as an annotated corpus. Annotation and mark-up.
3. Corpus query systems and methods.
4. Regular expressions.
5. Learner corpora.
6. Use of corpora in language teaching.

Interactive Lectures
Slides
Lab with group activities dedicated to the application of the notions introduced in class to.

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.

Final oral exam covering material from the entire course.
Final assignment (8 pages) reporting the results of an in-depth corpus-based analysis of a linguistic phenomenon previously agreed during office hours. The text in pdf format must be sent to jezek@unipv.it 7 days before the exam.

Material for the course is available on the KIRO platform (access with personal username and password).