[Corpora-List] threshold for hapax legomena
Geoffrey Sampson
grs2 at sussex.ac.uk
Fri May 25 10:19:51 UTC 2007
Is it over-pedantic to comment that if you are going to call them hapax
legomena, since that means "read once" the limit should be 1?
Geoffrey Sampson
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Prof. Geoffrey Sampson MA PhD MBCS CITP FHEA
author of "The 'Language Instinct' Debate"
Department of Informatics, University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QJ, England
www.grsampson.net +44 1273 678525
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