Corpora: CBL course :summary

[Béatrice Vautherin]

Dear list members,
I asked for advice about how to organize a new course in corpus based 
linguistics about a week ago and received many useful answers. I wish to 
thank :
Lou Burnard, Tony Jappy, François MANIEZ, Antonio Balvet, Geoffrey 
WILLIAMS, Hilde Hasselgard, John Osborne, Kate Beeching , Mike Scott, elena 
tognini bonelli, P bI K O B_ , Tony Berber Sardinha, Ute Römer, Tylman Ule.

Most of the people who give courses in CBL teach more advanced students and 
have more time.

The following corpora were recommended :
BNC World, BNC Sampler, the Longman Corpus, ICAME CD-ROM
Collins Wordbanks Online www.collinswordbanks.com
for all kinds of English texts in electronic format: the famous Project 
Gutenberg: http://promo.net/pg/

Tools :
WordSmith Tools, SARA
Intex, développé par Max Silberztein, voir www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/intex.
"Concapp" (http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/pub/concapp/ ), a good program and it 
may appeal to the students because it is free of charge.

Books
Tognini Bonelli, E. 2001. Corpus Linguistics at Work. Amsterdam: John Benjamin.
PARTINGTON A. 1998. Patterns and Meanings, Amsterdam : John Benjamin's
Kennedy G. 1998. An introduction to Corpus Linguistics. Longman
SINCLAIR J. McH., 1991 Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
The BNC Handbook

Sites esp. of colleagues doing similar courses
http://www.univ-perp.fr/lsh/ens/anglo/deug2.html#2inform
http://nte.univ-lyon2.fr/~maniezf/DESS_ET.htm
http://www.hf.uio.no/iba/nettkurs/E253web.html
http://folk.uio.no/hhasselg/UV-corpus.htm
http://www.llsh.univ-savoie.fr/anglais/corpus.htm
http://www.ruf.cice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html
the site of the Scuola per Interpreti e Traduttori, Forli, Univ. of 
Bologna: http://www.sslmit.unibo.it (go to research and then to Corpus 
linguistics)
for uses and exercises about CL in the classroom, Tim Johns, one of the 
veterans: http://web.bham.ac.uk/johnstf/
and our own www site, where we run short intensive courses (5-7 days) on 
the uses of Corpus Linguistics for different applications: www.twc.it

Work to expect from the students : personal research on a chosen subject, 
contrastive work.
Personal conclusions
The big news is that Lou Burnard has offered to come to Paris to sort out 
our installation failure. So we will use the BNC World with SARA maybe 
starting with the Sampler. I have also used WordSmith Tools and enjoyed it 
although I still have a lot to learn but having to teach it is the best 
incentive. Now I have to select carefully what to do in only 6 two-hour 
classes alternating with lexicology lectures (mainly on word formation). 
Thanks to all. This list is great!
I will try and come to Lorient to meet the colleagues in CBL in France.
Please forgive me if I failed to mention some people or resources that came 
my way.
Cheers,
Beatrice