>ps: For lexical coverage studies, RANGE seems to handle bigger <span class="il">corpora</span> better. <br><div><br></div>Although lexical coverage software is not really the focus here, a multiplatform (Windows, OS X, Linux) alternative to Range is AntWordProfiler, which is of course, freeware:<br>
<a href="http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html">http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html</a><br><br>This can handle BNC-size corpora without any problem.<br><br>Laurence.<br><br>