[Corpora-List] Frequency lists (corrected)

[Adriano Ferraresi]

Dear Chris,

as regards your question (i), you can find several frequency lists  
(for English, but also Italian and German) in this site:

http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/

The English lists were extracted from ukWaC, a very large web-derived  
corpus containing around 2 billion words, and are available for  
unigrams and bigrams. For further details please refer to the site, or  
have a look at:
Baroni, Bernardini, Ferraresi, Zanchetta (in print). "The wacky wide  
web: a collection of very large linguistically processed web-crawled  
corpora". Language resources and evaluation.

Regards,

Adriano


On 23-Feb-09, at 10:50 AM, CRuehlemann at aol.com wrote:

>
> 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
>
> Leech, G., P. Rayson and A. Wilson. (2001). Word Frequencies in  
> Written and Spoken English: Based on the British National Corpus.  
> London: Longman
>
> CIC-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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