Which of these is an example of a colligation?

CORPUS LINGUISTICS

What is a corpus?

A. A theory of language.

B. A collection of texts stored on a computer.

C. An electronic database similar to a dictionary.

D. Any large collection of words such as a collection of books, newspapers or magazines.

Why do we use corpora?

A. Because other methods of language analysis are not reliable.

B. Because computers can confirm our intuitions about language.

C. Because computers can help us discover interesting patterns in language which would be difficult to spot otherwise.

D. Because with corpora we can answer all research questions about language.

What is corpus annotation?

A. Adding an extra layer of information to the text to allow for more sophisticated searches.

B. Separating text into sentences.

C. Manual coding of text for parts of speech.

D. Adding critical comments to a text.

What is a specialised corpus?

A. A corpus that is used for historical language investigations.

B. A corpus that is composed of a large variety of genres.

C. A corpus that is used by language specialists.

D. A corpus that focuses on e.g. one type of genre, one period, one place etc.

Which of these is NOT a type of corpus?

A. Multilingual corpus

B. Learner corpus

C. Diachronic corpus

D. Observer corpus

What is the BNC?

A. A large general corpus of British English.

B. A corpus of different genres of English writing.

C. A large spoken corpus of British English.

D. A specialised corpus representing the language of newspapers.

Which of these statements is NOT true about a monitor corpus?

A. It is frequently updated.

B. The Bank of English is an example of a monitor corpus.

C. The BNC is an example of a monitor corpus.

D. It is used to monitor rapid change in language.

What is a concordance?

A. Information about word frequencies normalised per million words.

B. Listing of examples of a word searched in a corpus with some context on the right and some context on the left.

C. An alphabetical list of words that appear in a text.

D. A list of words and their frequencies that can be used for identifying important words in a text.

What is a frequency distribution in a corpus?

A. Information about how frequent a word is in a corpus.

B. Information about the use of a term across a number of different texts, corpus sections, speakers etc.

C. Information about how frequent a word is per million words.

D. Sociolinguistic information about the gender of the speakers that are represented in a corpus.

What is collocation?

A. Random variation among words.

B. Systematic co-occurrence relationships between words in use.

C. A statistic that compares the co-occurrence of two words.

D. Equivalence of meaning of two or more words.

Which of these is an example of a collocation?

A. tell-story

B. surprisingly-unsurprisingly

C. a-the

D. help-aid

What is a colligation?

A. A strong affinity of a word for another word.

B. A strong affinity of a word for a grammatical class.

C. A statistic that compares the co-occurrence of two words.

D. A grammatical category of a word.

Which of these is an example of a colligation?

A. telephone-operator

B. Mr-proper noun

C. back-front

D. SUBJECT-VERB-OBJECT

Date: 2016-06-13; view: 7