[Corpora-List] corpus analysis of loanwords

From: TadPiotr (tadpiotr@plusnet.pl)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2006 - 09:04:17 MET DST

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    Dear all,

    does anyone know about an analysis of loanwords in a contemporary corpus in
    a (Indo-)European language? What I mean is which loanwords are frequent, and
    how frequent, the statistical structure of loanwords from particular
    languages against general lexical statistics etc.

    As far as the inventory of lexical items, among them loanwords, is concerned
    electronic dictionaries can be used. For English a classic analysis is that
    by Finkenstaedt, Thomas and Dieter Wolff. 1973. Ordered Profusion: Studies
    in Dictionaries and the English Lexicon. Heidelberg: Winter.

    Unfortunately I do not know any comparable corpus analysis, apart from
    Polish.
    For Polish Witaszek-Szymborska wrote a PhD, in which she analysed the
    500,000 word corpus for the frequency dictionary of Polish, and published
    the results in:
    Witaszek-Samborska, Malgorzata. 1992. Wyrazy obcego pochodzenia we
    wspólczesnej polszczyznie : na podstawie slowników frekwencyjnych. Poznan :
    Nakom
    Witaszek-Samborska, Malgorzata. 1993. Zapozyczenia z róznych jezyków we
    wspólczesnej polszczyznie (na podstawie slowników frekwencyjnych) Poznan :
    Wydaw. PTPN

    I would be very interested in comparing her results with those for other
    languages.

    Any help will be appreciated.
    Best wishes

    Tadeusz Piotrowski

    Tadeusz Piotrowski
    Professor in Linguistics
    English Department
    Opole University
    Poland

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