12.2201, Sum: Relative Word Order Frequencies

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Subject: 12.2201, Sum: Relative Word Order Frequencies

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Date:  Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:26:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:  Frederick Newmeyer <fjn at u.washington.edu>
Subject:  Relative word order frequencies

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Date:  Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:26:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:  Frederick Newmeyer <fjn at u.washington.edu>
Subject:  Relative word order frequencies

A few days ago I posted a query about published sources for relative
frequencies of word order types (SVO, passive, etc.) in English. I would
like to thank Joe Hilferty, Michaele Smith, and Marcus Callies for their
helpful responses. In fact, there are two relevant recent publications,
both downloadable from web pages:

http://crl.ucsd.edu/newsletter/back-issues.html

Dick, Frederic & Jeffrey L. Elman. 2001. The Frequency of Major
  Sentence Types over Discourse Levels: A Corpus Analysis.
  (February 2001 Vol. 13, No. 1).

and

de Haan, Pieter and Oostdijk, Nelleke (1994), "Clause Patterns in Modern
British English: A Corpus-Based (Quantitative) Study", in ICAME Journal
18, 41-79.        http://www.hd.uib.no/icame/ij18/dehaan.pdf

- fritz newmeyer

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