A14) "Things to love" - Using concordances in AntConc to explore objects of the verb "to love" in two spoken corpora (AntConc)
Data: Two corpora of American tv shows
Programs: AntConc + Excel
Tasks:
- Download the corpora here
- Use the concordance function in AntConc to create a hit list of all occurrences of the verb "to love" in both corpora
- Export these concordance lists to excel
- Take a randomized sample of 100 hits for each corpus
- Come up with a meaningful system for categorizing the objects of the verb "to love"
- Does the usage of "to love" differ in both corpora? If so, in what way?
Notes:
- Anthony Laurence (the programmer of AntConc) has his own youtube channel with detailed introductory videos for his programs (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5bgZtdgKyj5un66ZOGGN2A)
- Both corpora are part-of-speech-tagged with the CLAWS 7 tagset ( http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/claws7tags.html )
- Including tags in your search might be a good idea: instead of searching for "love*", try searching for "love*_V*"
Laaste wysiging: Thursday, 10 September 2015, 10:24 AM