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How does this count treat noun compounds? E.g., das Werk, der
Werkfuehrer, die Werkstatt... / die Kammer, das Kammerwasser, der
Kammerbeamter...<br><br>
Dan Slobin<br>
University of California, Berkeley<br><br>
At 07:24 AM 4/15/2009, Sven Hartrumpf wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:09:18 -0300,
stgries wrote:<br><br>
> Does anyone have any idea<br>
> or, better even, data on the question what the most frequent (in
the<br>
> sense of type frequency) grammatical gender in German is? That is,
are<br>
> there estimates out there how many different nouns are
masculine,<br>
> feminine, and neuter?<br><br>
Here are some type counts based on noun readings (and not noun
lemmas)<br>
in two computational lexica for German,<br>
ignoring readings with more than 1 possible gender:<br><br>
fem masc neut<br>
HaGenLex 6409 4702
1723<br>
CELEX+HaGenLex 23311 15846 10064<br><br>
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Greetings<br>
Sven<br><br>
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