Computer Tools and Applications - Sommersemester 2000 - Anglistik

Summary of most common uses of corpora

• stylistic: searching for groups of related words that define some area of interest (e.g., ‘sunset’, ‘colours’, ‘ghosts’, etc.) to see in what context and how an author uses them

• lexicographical: searching for all occurences of a word to see how it is used, in what contexts, by what groups of speakers/writers, with what other words (collocations and idioms)

• linguistic: searching for particular grammatical patterns to see where and how they are used.