information, downloads and links
infos for writing papers and theses
scope:
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zulassungsarbeit (lehramt): 12,000-16,000 words
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bachelor's thesis:12,000-16,000 words
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master's thesis: 25,000-30,000 words
layout & style:
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other requirements:?
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develop a meaningful research question or hypothesis
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structure your paper in accordance with the exploration of that research question
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your work should combine theory and application, i.e. working with data and/or providing your own linguistic analysis
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write in academic English
downloads & links:
linguistic links
corpora
- Mark Davies' BYU Corpus Overview website (includes links to interfaces to, e.g., the British National Corpus (BNC), the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), the TIME Magazine Corpus, the Global Web-Based English (GloWbE) Corpus, and many others)
- BNCweb (BNC interface by Lancaster 威尼斯赌博游戏_威尼斯赌博app-【官网】)
- BNCweb registration (for first time users)
- The Vienna-Oxford International Corpus of English (VOICE) (a corpus of English as a lingua franca)
- English as a Lingua Franca in Academic Settings (ELFA)
- Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE)
- The Speech Accent Archive
- The IViE (Intonational Variation in English) Corpus
- International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) (no downloads possible)