sexta-feira, 7 de novembro de 2008

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: