<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 21-Feb-07, at 10:19 AM, Hunter, Duncan wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV id="idOWAReplyText2174" dir="ltr"><DIV dir="ltr"><FONT face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; ">While we're on the subject of lemma lists, does anybody know of a 'lemma' list that extends the definition of word family to include same-root words?</SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Paul Nation has just such a list for the most frequent 20,000 word families:</DIV><DIV><<FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><A href="http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/staff/paul-nation/nation.aspx">http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/staff/paul-nation/nation.aspx</A>></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Click on the link on the left for "the BNC lists</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">You can also see these lists in action on Tom Cobb's Compleat Lexical Tutor site:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><<FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><A href="http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/bnc/">http://www.lextutor.ca/vp/bnc/</A>></SPAN></FONT><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Best,</DIV><DIV>Brett</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><<A href="http://english-jack.blogspot.com">http://english-jack.blogspot.com</A>></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-----------------------</DIV><DIV>Brett Reynolds</DIV><DIV>English Language Centre</DIV><DIV>Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning</DIV><DIV>Toronto, Ontario, Canada</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:brett.reynolds@humber.ca">brett.reynolds@humber.ca</A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>