[Corpora-List] List of mass and count nouns?

[Bob Parks]

Greetings:
Is anyone aware of comparable tagged data for "concrete" and 
"abstract" words/meanings?
Thanks,
Bob Parks
Visiting Scholar, Cornell University

At 4:41 PM +0000 12/20/07, Martin Wynne wrote:
>You can download the CuvPlus dictionary from the OTA at:
>
>http://www.ota.ox.ac.uk/texts/2469.html
>
>Best wishes,
>Martin
>
>Roger Mitton wrote:
>>  Scott,
>>
>>  The CuvPlus English dictionary, based originally on the Oxford Advanced
>>  Learner's Dictionary of Current English, and available for research from the
>>  Oxford Text Archive, has the nouns tagged as count/mass/either.
>>
>>  Yours,
>>
>>  Roger Mitton
>>  Birkbeck, University of London
>>
>>  Message: 5
>>  Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:47:37 -0800
>>  From: "scott crossley" <sacrossley_AT_gmail.com>
>>  Subject: [Corpora-List] List of mass and count nouns?
>>  To: corpora_AT_uib.no
>>
>>
>>
>>  Dear Corpora List Members,
>>
>>  I am trying to locate an electronic list of mass and count nouns in English.
>>  I am looking at the development of hypernymic relations in L2 learners of
>>  English and would like to compute the amount of mass and count nouns used by
>>  L2 learners as they relate to basic level categories and superordinate
>>  categories in language use.
>>
>>  Any help would be appreciated!
>>
>>  
>
>
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