ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF “CORPUS LINGUISTICS”

The hours allocated for lectures, seminars and practical classes in the program of the subject “Uzbek Linguistics” of the Uzbek philology and Uzbek language and literature departments of higher educational institutions seem to be sufficient for the student to acquire theoretical knowledge and practical skills. Of course, the student receives knowledge about linguistics during the course, collects dialect data during the internship, and in some cases defends a dissertation in this field in the future, prepares a monograph and a textbook. But is the problem being solved? What is the real goal? It is known that a lot of valuable dialectological data remains unprocessed in the personal libraries of scientists or in the archives of departments of higher educational institutions or is sent to waste paper. However, in developed countries, the field has advanced from recording dialectological data collected in the field to processing it using computer programs. And we are just now taking the first steps in the field of applied philology in universities, for example, by introducing a course on the development of a dialectal corpus of the Uzbek language.