[Corpora-List] encoded morphological relationships among words

[Emiliano Guevara]

Dear Albrecht,

for English, Dutch and German, the CELEX database might be what you  
look for.

http://www.ru.nl/celex/index.html

you will find it in most university libraries.

E.



On Jul 7, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Albretch Mueller wrote:

>
> I have been trying to find more morphological/lexicological
> information than what you get from a dictionary and I would like for
> this information to be encoded in such a way, that, say, in English,
> you can see that "nation" and "native" or "busy" and "business" are
> indeed related and how so.
> ~
> I am also interested in the general morphological pattern among
> words; inflectional or derivational ones. Say "busy" and "easy" are
> since there is also "easiness" . . .
> ~
> If you look up "business" on thefreedictionary.com you will see as
> the last description of the word:
> .. . .
> 11.  Obsolete The condition of being busy.
> ~
> nation:
> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nation
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nation
> http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=nation
> ~
> native:
> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/native
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/native
> http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=native
> ~
> busy:
> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/busy
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/busy
> http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=busy
> ~
> business:
> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/business
> http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/business
> http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=business
> ~
> From where can you get such info, preferably as a wordlist? or, how
> would you go about producing one? (from where would you get the raw
> data?)
> ~
> Thanks
> lbrtchx
>
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Dipart. di Lingue e Lett. Straniere
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