knowledge of: history and formation of corpus linguistics as scientific method and approach; main problems and tasks that are solved by corpus linguistics; main research strategies.
be able to: study speech activity of native speakers; describe new phenomena and processes at current stage of language development in other communities; apply modern technologies for collecting, processing and interpreting the obtained experimental data; analyze language based on corpus data.

• prerequisite: philosophy and methodology of science, analytical and quantitative research methods.
• supplementary: theory and methodology of applied linguistics in diachrony and synchrony, automation of linguistic studies.

The discipline comprises the following topics: the phenomenon of "formalization" and the concept of "formalized theory" both in theoretical linguistics and in terms of their philosophical interpretation; modeling as the means of formal analysis; “models” in linguistics and description of their main types; principles of text structure modeling for information structures that are suitable for computer-aided processing; modern methods of explication of implicit lingually competent information of texts; problems that arise in the process of formalizing lingual information during linguistic studies; methods of constructing formal information models; history of origin and development of corpus technologies; state of the art of corpus linguistics in the world and in Ukraine; stages of creating corpora of texts, their classification; standards used in corpus linguistics.

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2. Shyrokov V.A. Humanitarna tradytsiia ta tekhnolohichnyi status movy // Movoznavstvo. – 2001. – № 3. – Pp. 120 – 132.
3. Korpusnaia lingvistika i lingvisticheskie bazy dannykh / Pod red. A.S. Gerda. – SPb., 2002.— 168 p.
4. Shyrokov V.A. Informatsiina teoriia leksykohrafichnykh system. – K.: Dovira, 1998 – 331 p.
5. Shyrokov V.A., Rabulets O.H., Kostyshyn O.M., Shevchenko I.V., Yakymenko K.M. Tekhnolohichni osnovy suchasnoi tlumachnoi leksykohrafii // Movoznavstvo. – 2002. – № 6. – Pp. 49-86.
6. Shyrokov V.A. Fenomenolohiia leksykohrafichnykh system. – K.: Naukova Dumka, 2004. – 328 p.

• current control (40%): laboratory work reports in a written form and oral check (40%);
• final control (60% exam): written answers and oral check (60%)