10. corpus linguistics 2

collocation

predictable combination of words

construction

in frequency analysis: can be a word, all word forms of a specific lemma, a fixed expression

frequency

how often something occurs, frequency analysis

normalised frequency

when a word becomes a fundamental part of everyday-language

Pmw/pttw

in comparing frequencies, per-million-word, per-ten-thousand-word (formula = number of occurrences/ total number of words x10_^x)

qualitative

focus not on how often a feature occurs, data is used only as a basis for identifying and describing aspects of usage in the language to provide real-life examples of particular phenomena

quantitative

we count occurrences and compare frequencies and often use statistics to uncover patterns

regular expression (regex)

a way to validate a string using formal language by looking for string patterns

token (in frequency analysis)

refers to total number of words or constructions

type (in frequency analysis)

refers to the number of different words or constructions