Dear Sanjay,
These lists are downloadable from http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/bncfreq/
This is the companion website for
Leech, G., Rayson, P., and Wilson, A. (forthcoming). Word Frequencies in
Written and Spoken English: based on the British National Corpus. Longman,
London. ISBN 0582-32007-0
which will be published next week.
Regards,
Paul.
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> From: sanjayp@xanalys.com [SMTP:sanjayp@xanalys.com]
> Sent: 19 July 2001 11:20
> To: corpora@hd.uib.no
> Subject: Corpora: complete lists of English function words?
>
>
> Can anybody provide me with lists (as complete as possible) of all English
> function words: prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, modals, auxiliaries,
> determiners and particles?
>
> I realise that I could extract them from a corpus but I imagine that many
> people
> must have already done it.
>
> thanks in advance.
> sanjay
>
>
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