Homework #2: Criticize the Design of Corpus
- Paper
- John W. Du Bois (1987),
"The Discourse Basis of Ergativity,"
Language, vol 63, no 4, pp.805-855.
- Ouestion
- Evaluate the quality of the corpus in this paper,
using the knowledge of sampling and corpus concepts
you've learned so far:
- How did the author design the corpus for his "ergativity" research?
- Why did the author design the corpus this way?
- What are the pros and cons of this corpus?
- If you are going to undertake the same research topic,
how will you design the corpus to support your research,
given "reasonable" human and financial resources?
Announce: 2004-03-16 13:30
Due: 2004-03-23 13:30