bat

[Wayles Browne]

John Dingley asks about 2 Serbo-Croatian words for 'bat'; Ralph Bogert
describes the distribution of four words in all.

We can add some statistics from the Bosnian corpus, 1+ million words,
at http://www.tekstlab.uio.no/Bosnian/Corpus.html
and the Croatian corpus, 8+ million words, at http://www.hnk.ffzg.hr/30m.htm

ljiljak (and inflected forms): Bos. 0, Cro. 0
netopir (and inflected forms): Bos. 0, Cro. 0
s^is^mis^  (and inflected forms): Bos. 1, Cro. 7 (it seems to be the
standard translation for
Strauss's "Die Fledermaus")
slijepi mis^: Bos. 4, Cro. 1

Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

tel. 607-255-0712 (o), 607-273-3009 (h)
fax 607-255-2044 (write FOR W. BROWNE)
e-mail ewb2 at cornell.edu

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