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<DIV>Dear All</DIV>
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<DIV>I'm interested in two questions related to word frequency lists:</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG>(i)</STRONG> The published frequency lists I am aware of include
the following few:</DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>BNC-based:</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>Kilgarriff, A.</SPAN><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
<FONT size=2>(1998). ‘BNC database and word frequency lists</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><EM>.</EM></SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">’</SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-style: italic">
</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><A
href="http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html"><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html</FONT></A></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><FONT
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><FONT
size=2>Leech, G., P. Rayson and A. Wilson. (2001). <EM>Word Frequencies in
Written and Spoken English: Based on the British National Corpus</EM>. London:
Longman</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><FONT
size=2><STRONG>ICE-based:</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"></SPAN><FONT
face="Times New Roman Baltic"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN>McCarthy, M. J.
(1998). </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><EM><FONT
size=2>Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics.</FONT>
</EM></SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>Cambridge: Cambridge University Press</FONT>
</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman Baltic"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><FONT
face=Arial size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman Baltic"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><FONT
size=+0><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2>Could anybody point me to more word frequency
lists available either in print or on the
internet?</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman Baltic"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><FONT
size=+0><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT
size=2></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman Baltic"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><FONT
size=+0><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2><STRONG>(ii)</STRONG> As far as I know,
the definite article <EM>the</EM> tops most word frequency
lists derived from general corpora. Is anybody aware of any published
in-depth discussion of this finding in terms of reference, be
it anaphoric, cataphoric or
deictic? </FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman Baltic"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><FONT
size=+0><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT
size=2></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman Baltic"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><FONT
size=+0><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT size=2>Any help is greatly appreciated. A summary will be
posted.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman Baltic"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><FONT
size=+0><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT
size=2></FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman Baltic"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"><FONT
size=+0><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT
face=Arial><FONT
size=2>Chris</FONT></FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman Baltic"><FONT size=2><SPAN lang=EN-GB
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic"></DIV></SPAN></FONT></FONT>
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