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Information

J004, Wednesday, 18h00-19h30

Outline and Slides

01 - Introdcution

Revision and Evolution of Language

02 - Syntax and Morphology

Formal Syntax, Generative Linguistics and Universal Grammar

Functional Syntax, Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics

03 Semantics and Pragmatics

Semantics 1 - Lexical Relations

Semantics 2 - Categorisation

Semantics 3 - Metaphor

Semantics 4 - Context

04 Discourse and Society

Sociolinguistics 1 - Variation

Sociolinguistics 2 - History of English

Reading

Yule 2014 - Evolution

Yule 2014 - Syntax

Yule 2014 - Semantics

Yule 2014 - Society 1

Yule 2014 - Society 2

Yule 2014 - Society 3

Homework

Instructions
Step by step guide

Videos
Vids 1 and 3 have sound problems, I still have ot had tim to re-do them, I will try to do so over the next week

1. Extracting data and analysing data

2. Cleaning data and looking at results

3. Creating Cross-Tabluation and Histogram

4. Vid from last class with homework summary

Corpora - Semantics

https://www.english-corpora.org/

After all - We will not use this application

Software - AntConc

Mac - http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/releases/AntConc356/AntConc.zip

Win - http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/releases/AntConc356/AntConc_64bit.exe