Corpus Terms
A corpus focusing on a particular genre or purpose.
What's a specialized corpus?
A word and all of its inflectional variations (but not all of its derivational forms).
What's a lemma?
DDL
What is Data-Driven Learning?
A corpus designed to be used by language learners.
What's a pedagogical corpus?
What are near-synonyms?
I-I-I
What is Illustration-Induction-Interaction?
Any sequence of words frequently found together, without a clear semantic/ pragmatic meaning.
What's a lexical bundle?
Words such as: just, whatever, bit, actually, really, quite; basically, slightly, pretty; clearly, honestly, unfortunately
What are stance words?
Teaching with corpora in which students do not touch any corpus and do not see any direct concordance line; corpus data are often adapted to be accessible.
What is corpus-informed/corpus-aided teaching?
A word that is the target of a corpus search, which appears in the center of a concordance line.
What is a node word?
The meaning and tone that a node word takes on because of the presence of its collocates (e.g., positive or negative, sarcastic or genuine)
What is semantic prosody?
Teaching in which corpus data are introduced to students with no adaptation, but learners do not interact directly with corpora.
What is corpus-based teaching?
A frequent, meaningful sequence of words containing lexical and grammatical words.
What's a lexical chunk?
The tendency of a word to prefer to co-occur (collocate) with certain other words in some semantically related categories/ topical domains (e.g., physical actions, mental activities, valuable objects, medicine, sports, concrete nouns related to food)
What is semantic preference?
Teaching with corpora in which learners are trained to use corpora directly to answer their own questions about the target language.
What is corpus-driven teaching?
A combination of 2 lexical items found together or close together with higher frequency than normal.
What's a collocation/lexical collocation?
A principle that states that when we use language, we use semi pre-constructed phrases that are treated as more or less fixed units. This principle is in contrast with the open-choice principle, in which language use is considered filling in slots in grammatical structures to build sentences word-by-word.
What is the idiom principle?
Using a learner corpus and a native speaker corpus to compare learner's language with competent users of the target language.
What is Data-Driven CIA (Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis)?
A function in Antconc in which the position of a word in individual texts is shown as vertical lines.
What's a concordance plot?
Verbs that are used in so many expressions with so many different meanings that they retain little meaning on their own.
What are delexicalized verbs?
A corpus-based teaching activity targeting a specific language error or area of confusion.
What is a kibitzer?
Words in a corpus that occur with unusually high frequency compared to another corpus.
What are keywords?/What is keyness?
Statements about language patterns that describe tendencies and likelihood. This is in contrast with deterministic rules, which are absolute statements about correctness.
What are probabilistic rules?
I-I-I-I
What is Illustration - Induction - Investigation - Interaction?
Words' co-occurrence in a wide span, sometimes with other words in between.
What is a concgram?
An approach to study grammar in which attention is paid to what words occupy the grammatical structure.
What is lexico-grammar?
The difference between a text's relevance and appropriateness to students and a text's quality as being created for meaningful communication.
What's the difference between authenticity and genuineness?