Syllabus

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Date Topic Main Reading Homework2
1 20.04. Introduction #1
2 27.04. The lexicon Geeraerts (2015) #2
3 04.05. Word classes Stefanowitsch (2020) ch. 1 #3
4 11.05. Categorization Weisser (2016) ch. 2-3 #4
5 18.05. Collocation Kennedy (1991) #5
6 25.05. Metaphor Deignan (2006) #6
7 01.06. Metonymy Deignan (2005) #7
8 08.06. Synonymy Kennedy (2003) #8
9 15.06. Antonymy Justeson & Katz (1991) #9
10 22.06. Lexical Patterns Altenberg & Granger (2001) #10
11 29.06. Lexical Bundles Biber, Conrad & Cortes (2004) #11
12 06.07. Constructions Stefanowitsch & Gries (2009) #12
13 13.07. Final Discussion

References

Altenberg, Bengt & Sylviane Granger. 2001. The grammatical and lexical patterning of make in native and non-native student writing. Applied Linguistics. Oxford University Press 22(2). 173–195.

Biber, Douglas, Susan Conrad & Viviana Cortes. 2004. If you look at…: Lexical bundles in university teaching and textbooks. Applied Linguistics. Oxford University Press 25(3). 371–405.

Deignan, Alice. 2005. A corpus linguistic perspective on the relationship between metonymy and metaphor. Style 39(1). 72–91.

Deignan, Alice. 2006. The grammar of linguistic metaphors. In Anatol Stefanowitsch & Stefan Th. Gries (eds.), Corpus-based approaches to metaphor and metonymy, 106–122. Mouton de Gruyter.

Geeraerts, Dirk. 2015. Lexical semantics. In, International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences, 931–937. Elsevier Ltd.

Justeson, John & Slava M Katz. 1991. Co-occurrences of antonymous adjectives and their contexts. Computational linguistics. MIT Press 17(1). 1–19.

Kennedy, Graeme. 1991. Between and through: The company they keep and the functions they serve. In Aijmer K. & B. Altenberg (eds.), English corpus linguistics, 95–110. London: Longman.

Kennedy, Graeme. 2003. Amplifier collocations in the British National Corpus: Implications for English language teaching. Tesol Quarterly. Wiley Online Library 37(3). 467–487.

Stefanowitsch, Anatol. 2020. Corpus linguistics: A guide to the methodology. Draft.

Stefanowitsch, Anatol & Stephan Gries. 2009. Corpora and grammar. In A. Lüdeling & M. Kytö (eds.), Corpus linguistics: An international handbook, 933–951. De Gruyter Berlin, Germany.

Weisser, Martin. 2016. Practical corpus linguistics: An introduction to corpus-based language analysis. New York: John Wiley & Sons.


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