Corpora: Sum, the 2nd: Adjective usage: attr. vs. pred.

From: Stefan Th. Gries (STGries@sitkom.sdu.dk)
Date: Mon May 20 2002 - 22:02:11 MET DST

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    Dear subscribers

    In February, I posted a query on relative frequencies of attributive vs.
    predicative usage to the list. After my summary of responses on 6 April, a
    few other subscribers were so kind to send me some further replies, which I
    summarise in what follows.

    Tony Bastow (tonybastow@hotmail.com) was so kind to let me have a copy of a
    small paper of his on evaluative adjectives, also providing some frequency
    data.
       Chris Brew (cbrew@julius.ling.ohio-state.edu) referred me to Neal Whitman
    (pwhitman@ling.osu.edu) who is finishing up a Ph.D that touches on this,
    using corpus and newspaper data.
       Arne Fitschen" (fitschen@IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE) provided some German
    frequency data of two small hand-tagged newspaper corpora (with a ratio of
    more than 2:1 of attributive:predicative usage)
       Ute Römer (ute.roemer@uni-koeln.de) brought my attention ot the following
    source: Merja Kytö and Suzanne Romaine "Competing forms of adjective
    comparison in modern English: What could be more quicker and easier and more
    effective?" (online at
    http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/BNC/using/papers/kytorom.html)
       Pete Whitelock (pete.whitelock@sharp.co.uk) provided me with raw
    frequency data of adjectives in the Brown corpus.

    Hoping that I have not forgotten anyone's reply, thanks again to all who
    contributed.

    Stefan Th. Gries
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    IFKI, Southern Denmark University
    http://people.freenet.de/Stefan_Th_Gries
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