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<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">Dear Juergen,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">In case it can be useful, I calculated the frequency of evidential markers in a Tibetan corpus as compared to how often English speakers express the same idea in <span>Mélac, Eric. "The pragmatic differences between grammatical and lexical evidentiality: A corpus-based study of Tibetan and English." </span><em>Journal of Pragmatics</em><span> 210 (2023): 143-156.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;"><span>More detailed statistics in Mélac, Eric. <em>L'évidentialité en anglais-approche contrastive à partir d'un corpus anglais-tibétain</em>. Diss. Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle-Paris III, 2014.</span></span></p>
<p>For other notions, I must say I don't know any comprehensive works dealing with frequency, and I'll be glad to know about them.</p>
<p>Best,<br />Eric <br /><br /></p>
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<div>Eric Mélac </div>
<div>Maître de conférences en linguistique / Associate professor in linguistics</div>
<div>Département d'études anglophones</div>
<div>EMMA (EA 741)</div>
<div>Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3</div>
<div>https://emma.univ-montp3.fr</div>
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<p>Le 28/11/2024 13:37, Miestamo, Matti M P via Lingtyp a écrit :</p>
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<pre>Dear Juergen,
in case you happen to read Finnish, there is a rather comprehensive (although not very recent) study of the frequencies of different categories and features in Finnish in:
Hakulinen A., Karlsson F. & Vilkuna M., 1980, Suomen tekstilauseiden piirteitä: kvantitatiivinen tutkimus (Publications of the Department of General Linguistics 6), Helsinki: University of Helsinki.
We also have some figures (mainly on the occurrence of different types of adverbials in affirmatives vs. negatives) that might be interesting to you in:
Miestamo, Matti, Olli Silvennoinen & Chingduang Yurayong. 2024 [e-pub ahead of print]. Asymmetry in temporal specification between affirmation and negation: Adverbials and tense-aspect neutralization. Studies in Language. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.23036.mie">https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.23036.mie</a>
Best wishes,
Matti
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> Dear all – I’m looking for corpus studies that have measured frequencies of various kinds of functional expressions. E.g., how often does negation occur? How often are modals used? What is the frequency of past vs. present vs. future tense? And so on. Particularly in languages other than English and crosslinguistically. – Thanks! – Juergen
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