Homework #5: Basic Excel Skills

Paper

John W. Du Bois (1987), "The Discourse Basis of Ergativity," Language, vol 63, no 4.

Sections you need to read to finish this homework

§2.1: Grammar, especially pp.818-820.

Ouestion

You're redoing the author's work on ergativity. You've collected and analyzed the corpus, and put the raw data of counts in an Excel file such as this.

Now you're required to:

1. complete the table so that the result looks like Table 1 (p.819), using Excel's automatic calculation facilities.
2. generate bar graphs similar to Figure 2 (p.820); the closer the better.

Announce: 2004-04-06    13:30

Due: 2004-04-13    13:30