Arabic-L:LING:Root frequency

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Date: 18 Feb 2008
From:timbuckwalter at qamus.org
Subject:Root frequency

Hi Dil,

I don't know of any available tagged corpora that list roots (or  
pattern morphemes, for that matter -- it would be nice to have  
frequency counts of both). However, there is a word frequency count by  
Wolf-Dietrich Fromm (1982) that does include an appendix with the  
frequencies of roots. It's based on a relatively small newspaper  
corpus. Below is the full citation, with some basic stats that I  
reported on at last-year's ALS conference.

Best,
Tim

Wolf-Dietrich Fromm (1982). Häufigkeitswörterbuch der modernen  
arabischen Zeitungspache. (Frequency dictionary of modern newspaper  
Arabic). Leipzig: VEB Verlag.

The corpus contains 59,561 tokens from the editorials of one issue  
each of al-Ahram (Cairo), Tishrin (Damascus), and al-Thawra (Baghdad),  
and an additional 20,000 tokens from the same newspapers, various  
issues, dated 1975-1979, sampling various subjects, in 100 texts of  
200 words each. The total of 79,561 tokens includes 8,257 types. The  
list is reduced to 2,619 by eliminating words with a frequency less  
than 3, and words that did not occur in all 3 sources.

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