What's "corpus"
- representing authentic language use
- for use inlinguistic research
- usually machine-readable
What csn corpora be used for?
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Studies of lexis (vocabulary)
- How frequently is a certain word used?
- How many meaning does the word have?
- In what environment does the word normally occur?
- Does the word occur with the same frequency in all type of text?
- Which preprosition follow a particular verb (e.g. depend) or objective (e.g. different)
studies of grammar- What is the distribution of two competing ?
- Is the passive generally used with or without an agent phrase
- What are the functions of discourse makers such as well, you know, kind of ,you see?
- How are sentences connected in different types of text?
