[Corpora-List] Frequency lists

[CRuehlemann at aol.com]

Dear All
 
I'm interested in two questions related to word frequency lists:
 
(i) The published frequency lists I am aware of include  the following few:
BNC-based:
Kilgarriff, A.  (1998). ‘BNC database and word frequency lists.’ 
_http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html_ 
(http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html) 
 
Leech, G., P. Rayson and A. Wilson. (2001). Word Frequencies in  Written and 
Spoken English: Based on the British National Corpus. London:  Longman
 
ICE-based:
McCarthy, M. J.  (1998). Spoken Language and Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: 
Cambridge University Press 
 
Could anybody point me to more word frequency  lists available either in 
print or on the  internet?
 
(ii) As far as I know,  the definite article the tops most word frequency  
lists derived from general corpora. Is anybody aware of any published  in-depth 
discussion of this finding in terms of reference, be  it anaphoric, cataphoric 
or  deictic? 
 
Any help is greatly appreciated. A summary will be  posted.
 
Chris
 
 
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