English 553: Stylistics

Homework and Links


Brief Homework Assignments:


Various Link Collections:
Michael Barlow's Corpus Linguistics Page
Susan Hockey's course bibliography and links
Hermann Moisl's corpus linguistics links
Gateway to Corpus Linguistics on the Internet
Cathy Ball's excellent tutorial in Corpus Linguistics

Useful Online Corpus Interfaces and Tools:
Wordsmith--Mike Smith's program
Collins WordbanksOnline English corpus sampler--does concordances and collocations, but output is limited to 40 lines
BNC Online Service
Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English Corpus Search
WebCorp Concordancer
UCREL CLAWS4 WWW Trial Tagging Service
Instructions for Oliver Mason's QTAG tagger
TEI-Lite Pizza Chef for creating DTDs
Latent Semantic Analysis Homepage
Turbo Lingo--performs basic text stats on a web page or pasted text
Shakespeare Search Engine--a nice search interface

Text Repositories:
Oxford Text Archives
Project Gutenberg
Bartleby.com

Basic Unix Commands:
from Stanford--note: if you print using the "lp" commands you will have to walk over to UCS to pick up your job.
from Vermont--note: we don't have the "pine" email program or the "pico" editor. Also, you will not normally be using an X-windows display.
from Oregon--note: again, we do not have pico and I don't recommend printing.
from Oxford--notes: again, unless you go to the Unix lab on campus, you won't be using an X-windows terminal.
from Trinity University--includes some handy shortcuts.

General Linguistics:
The Linguist List -- Clearinghouse for linguistics information of all kinds
Peter Patrick's African American English Page -- Contains an especially comprehensive bibliography and a nice page of selected readings.
On-Line English Grammar -- a helpful resource for English grammatical terminology
Lexicon of Linguistics -- explains some linguistics terminology
Poetics and Linguistics Association -- Professional association for stylistics


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