frequency of pronominal subjects in English

[Rui Chaves]

Hi,
In the Switchboard corpus Francis et al.1999 report 91% of pronominal
subjects and 34% pronominal objects:

Hartwell S. Francis, Michelle L. Gregory, and Laura A. Michaelis.
1999. "Are lexical subjects deviant?" In Proceedings of the Chicago
Linguistic Society CLS-1999, University of Chicago,

Downloadable here:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.66

Best,
RC


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Philip Miller
<philip.miller at univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know of studies that have investigated the frequency in corpora
> of pronominal subjects (as opposed to full NPs) in English.
>
> Best,
> Philip



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