Assignment about IT & English language (linguistics)
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You MUST answer ONE questions using CORPUS tools, each question has 2 parts (A+B).
Q1. (5 marks) If you choose this, please answer BOTH A &B (summarise in 200-300 words)
It is claimed that corpus-based studies can provide much more fine-grained descriptions of word meanings and usage that are not accounted for in traditional dictionaries. Explain the benefits of corpora for language descriptions by taking as an example your discovery journey into the linguistic patterns of:
A. Choose to compare ONE of the following pairs of the near synonyms.
Lethal – deadly
Too – completely
Shall – will
Contemporary – current
B. Choose ONE of the following similar-sounding and similarly spelled pairs of words to compare:
Whole – hole Die – dye
Peak – peek Scent – cent
Key – Quay Vain – vein
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Q2. (5 marks) If you choose this, please answer BOTH A &B (summarise in 200-300 words)
A. The neo-Firthian notion of the (extended) unit of meaning suggests that homonymous/polysemous words are, in fact, never semantically ambiguous in context, because there will always be some element of the context that disambiguates them, showing clearly which sense is meant. You can illustrate this by choosing to investigate ONE of the following highly polysemous (or homonymous) words using the BNC or Sketch Engine tools to show which is most frequent and how collocates can help disambiguate them:
Found
Lie
Duck
Try
B. Choose ONE of the following non-countable nouns to show their lexico-grammatical properties that you can observe on the BNC or the Sketch Engine. Are they grammatically treated as singular or plural nouns in English sentences? Explain with examples.
Data
Research
Media
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