Arabic-L:LING:Morph. family size response

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Date: 17 Aug 2000
From: Tim Buckwalter <tbuckwalter at tegic.com>
Subject: Morph. family size response

There is a "List of Root Frequencies" in Wolf-Dietrich Fromm's
"Häufigkeitswörterbuch der modernen arabischen Zeitungsprache" (1982). For
each root he provides the raw frequency of each lexical item based on that
root. The frequencies come from a small corpus of daily newspapers. For
example, the root m-th-l has:
35 maththala
 7 tamaththala
41 mithla
 3 mithlamaa
15 mathal
 5 mathalan
12 mithaal
10 tamthiil
31 mumaththil
15 mumaathil
 5 mutamaththil

Unfortunately, these statistics apply to the lemmatized results, not the
various surface forms that you're looking for (if i understood your question
correctly).

regards,
Tim Buckwalter
p.s. the book is possibly out of print; if you want to contact the author, i
just found his e-mail address here:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~islamwi/Mitarbeiter.htm

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