English Linguistics:
Applied Linguistics

How to use FirstClass

How to use the COBUILD corpus (1)

How to use the COBUILD corpus (2)

Comparison with Dutch: the INL corpus

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Reporting on your progress and findings

Reference material

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Reference material

Reference grammars

Needless to say, this short list is not exhaustive, but it lists those grammars and reference works which are most compatible with our approach:

• Biber, D., S. Johansson, G. Leech, and R. Quirk (1999) Longman grammar of spoken and written English. London: Longman.
  (LLIN 802.0/LONG 1999)
• Declerck, R. (1991) A comprehensive descriptive grammar of English. Tokyo: Kaitakusha.
  (LLIN 802.0H5/DECL 1991)
• Downing, A. and P. Locke (1992) A university course in English grammar. New York: Prentice-Hall.
  (LLIN 802.0H5/DOWN 1992)
• Ferris, C. (1993) The meaning of syntax: A study in the adjectives of English. London: Longman.
  (LLIN 802.0H5/FERR 1993)
• Halliday, M.A.K. (1985) An introduction to functional grammar. 1st ed. London: Arnold.
  (LLIN 800/HALL 1985)
• Halliday, M.A.K. (1994) An introduction to functional grammar. 2nd ed. London: Arnold.
  (LLIN 800/HALL 1994)
• Huddleston, R.D. and G.K. Pullum (2002) The Cambridge grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  (LLIN 802.0H5/HUDD 2002)
• Langacker, R.W. (1991) Foundations of Cognitive Grammar: Volume II: Descriptive application. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  (LLIN 800/LANG 1991)
• McGregor, W. B. (1997) Semiotic Grammar. Oxford: Clarendon.
  (LLIN 800/MACG 1997)
• Quirk, R., S. Greenbaum, G. Leech, and D. Crystal (1985) A comprehensive grammar of the English language. London: Longman.
  (LLIN 802.0H5/COMP 1985)
• Sinclair, J. et al. (1990) Collins COBUILD English grammar. London: HarperCollins Publishers.
  (LAGG 5223/COLL 90)
• Sinclair, J. (1991) Corpus, concordance, collocation (Describing English Language). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  (LAGG 5220/SINC 91)

Corpus research

• Jóhanna Barðdal's Crash course in corpus linguistics (with short discussions of, and links to, various English language corpora) at http://www.cas.unt.edu/~jbarddal/corpus.html
• Michael Barlow's extensive Corpus Linguistics resource site at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html
• Yvonne Breyer's excellent Gateway to Corpus Linguistics on the Internet at http://www.corpus-linguistics.de/
• ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) at http://helmer.aksis.uib.no/icame.html
• Corpus research in Leuven: Department of Linguistics; research group Functional Linguistics Leuven; Systemic-Functional Research Community on Interpersonal and Ideational Grammar; research group Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics

The COBUILD corpus

• The COBUILD website at http://www.collins.co.uk/cobuild/
• COBUILD telnet access tutorial and reference guide
• COBUILD jLookup access tutorial and reference guide
• Information provided by the COBUILD team with regard to text codes in spoken texts
• Information provided by the COBUILD team with regard to text codes in written texts
• If, for a given topic, a COBUILD search only yields a small number of tokens, you may want to try a (limited) search of the British National Corpus (with a maximum of 50 hits with their immediate context) so as to obtain some more material, at http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/lookup.html

Comparison with Dutch

• The INL (Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie) and their corpora at http://www.inl.nl/
• The E-ANS (Elektronische Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst) at http://oase.uci.kun.nl/~ans/

FirstClass

• Centrinity website, with download and documentation sections, at http://www.centrinity.com/
• EuroPACE: Towards a virtual university for Europe, at http://www.europace.org/portal/index.html

LUDIT

• Leuvens Universitair Dienstencentrum voor Informatica en Telematica at http://ludit.kuleuven.be/
• Information with regard to kotnet access at http://ludit.kuleuven.be/internet/
• Information with regard to telnet at http://ludit.kuleuven.be/software/netwerk/telnet.html
• Information with regard to FTP at http://ludit.kuleuven.be/software/netwerk/ftp.html

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