Introduction to Corpus Linguistics

Over the past decades, the use of quantitative methods has become almost generalized in all domains of linguistics. However, using these methods requires a thorough understanding of the principles underlying them. Introduction to quantitative methods in linguistics aims at providing students with an up-to-date and accessible guide to both corpus linguistics and experimental linguistics. The objectives are to help students developing critical thinking about the way these methods are used in the literature and helping them to devise their own research projects using quantitative data analysis.

Sandrine Zufferey: full professor of French Linguistics Christelle Gillioz: lecturer in French Linguistics, postdoctoral researcher in psycholinguistics

Chapter 1: Rationalism vs. Empiricism in Linguistics Chapter 2: Defining a research question for a corpus study Chapter 3: Assembling a monolingual corpus Chapter 4: Using monolingual corpora Chapter 5: Annotations and metadata Chapter 6: Multilingual corpora Chapter 7: Statistical tests applicable to corpus data