[Corpora-List] Frequency of masc./fem/neut. in German

[Sven Hartrumpf]

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:35:13 -0700, slobin wrote:

> How does this count treat noun compounds?
> E.g., das Werk, der Werkfuehrer, die Werkstatt ... /
> die Kammer, das Kammerwasser, der Kammerbeamter ...

Not specially. Nominal compounds receive their gender from
the last part (the base part).
In the lexica I cited, compounds do occur, but -- normally --
(semantically) regular compounds are avoided in such lexica.
But I would expect no big change if including more and more
compounds in the counts.

For example, I just took the 127,356 most frequent nominal compounds
from an older German Wikipedia (2006-11-30) and the distribution
is similar:

> >                  fem   masc  neut
> > HaGenLex          6409  4702  1723
                     49.9% 36.6% 13.4%
> > CELEX+HaGenLex   23311 15846 10064
                     47.4% 32.2% 20.4%

Wikipedia compounds  43.8% 34.4% 21.8%


Regards
Sven
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