Peter Littlechild
S.W.I.F.T. sc
Chris Allen wrote:
> I wondered if anyone on this list could help me with an enquiry.
>
> A student of mine is interested in obtaining frequency information for
> Latin words using a corpus. In particular, she would like to come up with a
> top 10 list of the most frequent Latinate words in English.
>
> Does anyone know of a corpus which is in some way 'tagged' according to
> etymological origin? The only thing I can remotely think of would be the
> dictionary database of a historically-orientated dictionary such as the OED
> which might be able to supply such etymological information.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Chris Allen
> University of Halmstad
> Jarnvagsgatan 8b
> 302 49 Halmstad
> Sweden
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