[Lingtyp] Corpus frequencies of various kinds of functional expressions across languages

[Eric Melac]

Dear Juergen, 

In case it can be useful, I calculated the frequency of
evidential markers in a Tibetan corpus as compared to how often English
speakers express the same idea in Mélac, Eric. "The pragmatic
differences between grammatical and lexical evidentiality: A
corpus-based study of Tibetan and English." _Journal of Pragmatics_ 210
(2023): 143-156. 

More detailed statistics in Mélac, Eric.
_L'évidentialité en anglais-approche contrastive à partir d'un corpus
anglais-tibétain_. Diss. Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle-Paris III,
2014. 

For other notions, I must say I don't know any comprehensive
works dealing with frequency, and I'll be glad to know about them.


Best,
Eric 

Eric Mélac  
Maître de conférences en linguistique  / 
Associate professor in linguistics 
Département d'études anglophones

EMMA (EA 741) 
Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3

https://emma.univ-montp3.fr 

Le 28/11/2024 13:37, Miestamo, Matti M P
via Lingtyp a écrit :

> 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
> 
> --
>
Matti Miestamo
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> 
>> Juergen
Bohnemeyer via Lingtyp <lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org> kirjoitti
26.11.2024 kello 4.22:
>> 
>> 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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