Dear all, I would like to invite you to join our Open Research Group organised by the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University, beginning on Wednesday 22 April at 12:00 (UK time). This term��s theme is Collocations and how to compute collocation measures, alongside a gentle introduction to R for beginners. The sessions are designed to be accessible and practical, with opportunities to explore key concepts in corpus linguistics and gain hands-on experience with basic statistical analysis in R.
Schedule (all sessions 12:00�C12:50 UK time, online or County South B089):
* Wednesday, 22/04/2026 * Wednesday, 06/05/2026 * Wednesday, 20/05/2026 * Wednesday, 03/06/2026
FREE registration: https://forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka Suggested readings:
* Brezina, V. & Gablasova, D. (2026). A Frequency Dictionary of Multi-Word Expressions in British English: Core Phrases and Exercises for Learners. Routledge. * Brezina, V. (2018). Statistics in Corpus Linguistics. CUP, Chapter 3 (collocation section): https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Statistics_in_Corpus_Linguistics/zLBo... * Evert, S. (2008). ��Corpora and collocations.�� In Corpus Linguistics: An International Handbook: https://stephanie-evert.de/PUB/Evert2007HSK_extended_manuscript.pdf * Gablasova, D., Brezina, V., & McEnery, T. (2017). ��Collocations in corpus�\based language learning research.�� Language Learning, 67(S1), 155�C179: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/lang.12225 * Sinclair, J., Jones, S., & Daley, R. (2004). English Collocation Studies: The OSTI Report. Continuum: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/English_Collocation_Studies/1kTkHAXeL...
Professor Vaclav Brezina
Professor in Corpus Linguistics
Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4YD
Office: County South, room B46 T: +44 (0)1524 510828
@vaclavbrezina