Re: [Corpora-List] list of cognates

From: Alexander BOULTON (Alex.Boulton@univ-nancy2.fr)
Date: Mon Jan 15 2007 - 08:54:09 MET

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    Henriette Walter in her book "Honni [sic] soit qui mal y pense:
    L'incroyable histoire d'amour entre le français et l'anglais" (Paris:
    Laffont, 2001) provides a list of 3222 words which are identical in
    written form (even accents) and with essentially the same meaning: she
    calls them "très bons amis" to counter the far fewer "faux amis" or
    false friends between English and French.

    She also gives a summary of other research which examines cognates in
    11 European languages (including English, French & Spanish): 1225
    words with the same etymological root at least, the vast majority of
    which are identical or virtually so.

    Hope it's of some help
    alex

    Andrea Mulloni <andrea2@wlv.ac.uk> a écrit:

    > Dear Fellow corpora members,
    >
    > I am trying to expand my own list of list of cognates English/Spanish
    > (currently 658 entries) and English/French (currenlty 654) for an
    > ongoing project. Any pointers?
    >
    > Thanks in advance,
    >
    > Andrea Mulloni
    > PhD student
    > University of Wolverhampton
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > 

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