 Hello and welcome. I'm Samuel, your course advisor. I'm thrilled to introduce you to our online course in Corpus Linguistics that focuses on linguistic applications. Together with Corpus Linguistics Basics, this course offers everything you need for working with corpora in linguistics. Pre-requisite for a participation in VLC 303 is thus the successful completion of VLC 302. To make sure you have done this, we have designed an aptitude test with questions from VLC 302. Only if you get 70% or more of the 20 randomly chosen questions right, you can unlock the linguistic content units of our new course. The first of these units starts with a discussion of the basic morphological processes and the underlying morphological operations, and it specifies how corpora can be used to investigate certain morphological features of present-day English. In unit 2, we delve into grammar. This unit reviews different types of grammar, their fundamental principles and their position within linguistics. Furthermore, we look at the major syntactic categories from sentences to words. In both cases we will show how corpora can be used to analyze grammatical constructions in present-day English. Unit 3, discusses the current tendencies of PDE word order. In particular the internal consequences of case syncretism, that is, those consequences that relate to the selection of the functional elements of clause structure. In the practical parts of this unit, suggestions about the use of corpora in this field are made. Unit 4, examines the field of lexical semantics. After an introduction of the main theoretical issues of word semantics, it provides material for corpus analyses that may help solving the main problems of this field. Finally, unit 5, provides a general overview of the varieties of English in a global context. It presents numerous examples and provides material for individual and comparative corpus studies. Well, that's it. Whether you're a student, a researcher, or just curious about language and linguistics, this course offers the tools to explore linguistic principles in a whole new way. Are you ready to embark on this linguistic journey with us? Then sign up today, and let's explore the world of corpora in linguistics.