23.5072, Qs: Compound versus Phrase Frequency

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Subject: 23.5072, Qs: Compound versus Phrase Frequency

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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 20:39:05
From: Svetoslava Antonova-Baumann [svetoslava.antonova-baumann at northumbria.ac.uk]
Subject: Compound versus Phrase Frequency

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Dear all,

It is often taken as read that languages such as German, Norwegian, and
Swedish use compounds in preference to phrases, whereas others, such as
Spanish and the Slavic languages tend to use phrases. However, I have not seen
this claim backed up by data on frequency of the structures. Does anyone have
a reference which would point me in the direction of quantitative/corpus data
which addresses this issue?

Many thanks and best wishes,

Svetoslava Antonova-Baumann

PhD candidate in Empirical linguistics
Northumbria University
 

Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): German (deu)
                     Spanish (spa)
                     Swedish (swe)






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