[Corpora-List] Frequency lists (corrected)

[Rayson, Paul]

Dear Chris,

 

There is a companion website for the Leech et al book at: 

 

http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/bncfreq/ 

 

and if you have a look in the foreword there are references to other earlier frequency lists such as West, Thorndike and Lorge etc. The foreword is also online: 

 

http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/bncfreq/samples/foreword.pdf

 

Are you just interested in lists for English?

 

Regards,

Paul.

 

Dr. Paul Rayson

Director of UCREL

Computing Department, Infolab21, South Drive, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK.

Web: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/ <http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/paul/> 

Tel: +44 1524 510357 Fax: +44 1524 510492

 

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Subject: [Corpora-List] Frequency lists (corrected)

 

  

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

 

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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