[Corpora-List] english lexicon

[Eric Atwell]

Tine,

I don't think LDOCE has what you asked for, words and their inflexional
forms - at least not straightforwardly. An LDOCE entry gives the base or
root form but NOT inflected forms unless they are irregular; and even
then, it is not straightforward to extract the inflected forms. For
example, compare the entry for "feat":

((feat)
    (1 F0032500 !< feat)
    (3 fi : t)
    (5 n !<)
    (7 0 !< !< ---- !< ----T)
    (8 a clever esp !. bodily action !, showing strength
       !, skill !, or courage : *46 It was quite a feat to
       move that piano by yourself))

and the start of the entry for "eat":

((eat)
    (1 E0007900 !< eat)
    (3 i : t)
    (5 v !< ate *CC / et !, eIt = eIt / !, *45 eaten *CC /
       !"i : tn /)
    (7 100 !< T1 (*CA UP *CB *44) !; *64 I *DE !< FO-- !<
       ----O----5)
    (8 to take in through the mouth and swallow
       (solid food or soup) : *46 Eat your dinner !! *44
       !| (fig !.) *46 That big house eats up money)
    ...

Field 5 shows wordclass and inflected forms; 
"feat" is a noun (n) and no plural is shown (so it must be regular); 
"eat" is a verb (v) and irregular inflections are shown

I suggest it will be easier to extract inflected froms from CELEX 
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC96L14

or CUV2 (Computer-usable version 2 of English wordlist with inflected
forms, phonetic transcriptions and syntactic information)
http://ota.oucs.ox.ac.uk/headers/0710.xml

I hope this helps

Eric Atwell, Leeds University


On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Tine Lassen wrote:

> Hi,
> I am looking for a - preferably - freely available lexicon of English words
> and their inflectional forms.
> I have come across many reference to LDOCE, but I cannot find it anywhere in
> a downloadable form. Is it still available for research purposes?
> 
> Best,
> Tine Lassen
> Roskilde University 
> 
>
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