Tag Combinations and Word Combinations (v. 2) (Frequency Analysis of English Vocabulary and Grammar: Based on the LOB Corpus) - Hardcover

Johansson, Stig; Hofland, Knut

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198242220 ISBN 13: 9780198242222

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1989

Synopsis

This work is based on a grammatically analyzed ("tagged") 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 "neighbours" of each word class) and word combinations (combinations of frequent nouns, verbs and adjectives). Principal new features of the analysis are the surveys of word-class combinations and word combinations. Researchers working in linguistics, lexicography, stylistics and automatic language analysis should find this text useful.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198242220
• ISBN 13: 9780198242222
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 335