Frequency Analysis of English Vocabulary and Grammar Based on the LOB CorpusVolume 1: Tag Frequencies and Word Frequencies |
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| Author:
| Johansson, Stig
Hofland, Knut |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-824221-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1989 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $150.00 |
Book Description:
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These two companion volumes are based on a grammatically analyzed version of the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen (LOB) Corpus, which is a broadly representative collection of contemporary English texts. The Corpus is analyzed on four levels: word-class frequencies (the frequency of nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. in different texts); word frequencies (the frequency of different grammatical uses of a word); word-class combinations (the preceding and following "neighbors" of each word class); and...
More DescriptionThese two companion volumes are based on a grammatically analyzed version of the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen (LOB) Corpus, which is a broadly representative collection of contemporary English texts. The Corpus is analyzed on four levels: word-class frequencies (the frequency of nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. in different texts); word frequencies (the frequency of different grammatical uses of a word); word-class combinations (the preceding and following "neighbors" of each word class); and word combinations (combinations of frequent nouns, verbs, and adjectives).