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[Sebastian Hoffmann]

>Dear list members:
>
>I would be very much obliged if anyone of the list members could direct me to
>find the information about the total frequency of English adjectives in BNC
>(ie. the total count of all the adjectives, including _JJ, _JJR, _JJT, _JK).
>Can the Sara software contained in the World Edition of BNC CD-ROMS do this
>job?
>
>Thanks a lot!
>
>S. Wang
>

Here's a list of adjective tags and how often they can be found in
the BNC World Edition:

+---------+---------+
| tag     |     n   |
+---------+---------+
| AJ0     | 6353313 |
| AJ0_AV0 |   67209 |
| AJ0_NN1 |  422503 |
| AJ0_VVD |   28008 |
| AJ0_VVG |   51927 |
| AJ0_VVN |   51381 |
| AJC     |  196473 |
| AJS     |   91616 |
| AV0_AJ0 |   79817 |
| NN1_AJ0 |  239907 |
| VVD_AJ0 |   16408 |
| VVG_AJ0 |  118635 |
| VVN_AJ0 |  112518 |
|-------------------|
| total:  | 7829715 |
+---------+---------+

Hope this is what you were looking for.
Regards,
Sebastian Hoffmann

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Sebastian Hoffmann
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