Corpus Linguistics

A Corpus Linguistics is a ruge compilation of ocurrences put together to display, at any moment, several samples of sentences. When someone enter a word, the corpus lists all the sentences that carry it, so one is able to exercise their relying on the observation of sentence features like word order, punctuation and, ultimately, one can try to absorb the meaning of the word by examining the context. It is a very useful tool, specially when the user is concerned with studying the language without resorting to translation all the time.

These are some examples of eletronic corpora:

Movie: Overboard

Joanna Staiton had a very rich vocabulary. When she was called to the kids' school she demonstrated once more that she knew how to express herself. Watch the excerpt of that movie and pay attention to the following words or expressions: