[Lingtyp] Corpus frequencies of various kinds of functional expressions across languages
Miestamo, Matti M P
matti.miestamo at helsinki.fi
Thu Nov 28 12:36:43 UTC 2024
Dear Juergen,
in case you happen to read Finnish, there is a rather comprehensive (although not very recent) study of the frequencies of different categories and features in Finnish in:
Hakulinen A., Karlsson F. & Vilkuna M., 1980, Suomen tekstilauseiden piirteitä: kvantitatiivinen tutkimus (Publications of the Department of General Linguistics 6), Helsinki: University of Helsinki.
We also have some figures (mainly on the occurrence of different types of adverbials in affirmatives vs. negatives) that might be interesting to you in:
Miestamo, Matti, Olli Silvennoinen & Chingduang Yurayong. 2024 [e-pub ahead of print]. Asymmetry in temporal specification between affirmation and negation: Adverbials and tense-aspect neutralization. Studies in Language. https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.23036.mie
Best wishes,
Matti
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> Dear all – I’m looking for corpus studies that have measured frequencies of various kinds of functional expressions. E.g., how often does negation occur? How often are modals used? What is the frequency of past vs. present vs. future tense? And so on. Particularly in languages other than English and crosslinguistically. – Thanks! – Juergen
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