[Corpora-List] List of mass and count nouns?

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Scott,

This is an interesting task to do from a corpus:

take a large English corpus
for each of the most frequent N nouns of English, find:
  overall frequency
  how often in singular
  how often in plural
  how often with each of
    a/an
    some + singular
    some + plural
    numbers

It won't be too hard to identify, from this data, what nouns are count-only
and which mass-only, and of course there'll be lots in between (including
lots where polysemy is part of the issue)

We've been addressing related questions, and support this kind of
exploration, in the Sketch Engine (http://www.sketchengine.co.uk)


Best

Adam



On 19/12/2007, scott crossley <sacrossley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Corpora List Members,
>
> I am trying to locate an electronic list of mass and count nouns in
> English. I am looking at the development of hypernymic relations in L2
> learners of English and would like to compute the amount of mass and count
> nouns used by L2 learners as they relate to basic level categories and
> superordinate categories in language use.
>
> Any help would be appreciated!
>
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> Scott Crossley, Ph.D.
> Linguistics/TESOL
>
> Department of English
> Mississippi State University
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