Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Compound versus Phrase Frequency
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| Author: | Svetoslava Antonova-Baumann | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Morphology
Text/Corpus Linguistics Typology |
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| Subject Language(s): |
German
Spanish Swedish |
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| Query: |
Dear all, It is often taken as read that languages such as German, Norwegian, and Swedish use compounds in preference to phrases, whereas others, such as Spanish and the Slavic languages tend to use phrases. However, I have not seen this claim backed up by data on frequency of the structures. Does anyone have a reference which would point me in the direction of quantitative/corpus data which addresses this issue? Many thanks and best wishes, Svetoslava Antonova-Baumann PhD candidate in Empirical linguistics Northumbria University |
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| LL Issue: | 23.5072 | |
| Date posted: | 04-Dec-2012 | |
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