[Corpora-List] frequency of colour terms (Greek and Dutch)

[H.A.E Viethen]

Hi,

we are looking for a way to estimate the relative frequency of colour
terms in different languages, in particular Greek and Dutch. So for
example, we'd like to know how frequent the term 'rood' (red) is in
Dutch compared to the term 'roze' (pink), or how the frequencies of
the terms 'ble' and 'galázio' compare in Greek.

We only need ballpark figures, the kind of thing one might estimate
with hit counts in web searches, although having slightly more
reliable numbers than that would be nice. In any case, many Greek
colour terms are derived from common nouns for objects in the natural
environment and usually even spelled the same. This makes it difficult
to distinguish the use of a word as a colour term from its use as a
common noun.

Does anyone know of a resource (paper, website, anything) that might
readily list relative frequencies for colour terms in Greek and Dutch?
Alternatively, can anyone point us to a POS-tagged corpus of Greek or
Dutch which would be suitable for counting the use of colour terms?

Many thanks,

Jette Viethen
Tilburg University

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