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Date: 12-Sep-2007 From: Richard Hudson <dickling.ucl.ac.uk> Subject: English Type Frequencies by POS E-mail this message to a friend
Does anyone know where I can find the proportion of English lemmas that are nouns?
More precisely, I'm looking for figures for lemmas in some large dictionary or corpus classified by word class (aka part of speech), and if possible also by token frequency; so ideally I'd like a table which shows nouns (and maybe other word classes) as a percentage of the lemmas in a given frequency range. My assumption is that the percentage of nouns in rare vocabulary is higher than in common vocabulary, but I'd like to know whether this is true.
If I learn anything significant I'll summarise back to the list.
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