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From: Sebastian Hoffmann (sebhoff@es.unizh.ch)
Date: Fri May 23 2003 - 08:44:43 MET DST

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    >Dear list members:
    >
    >I would be very much obliged if anyone of the list members could direct me to
    >find the information about the total frequency of English adjectives in BNC
    >(ie. the total count of all the adjectives, including _JJ, _JJR, _JJT, _JK).
    >Can the Sara software contained in the World Edition of BNC CD-ROMS do this
    >job?
    >
    >Thanks a lot!
    >
    >S. Wang
    >

    Here's a list of adjective tags and how often they can be found in
    the BNC World Edition:

    +---------+---------+
    | tag | n |
    +---------+---------+
    | AJ0 | 6353313 |
    | AJ0_AV0 | 67209 |
    | AJ0_NN1 | 422503 |
    | AJ0_VVD | 28008 |
    | AJ0_VVG | 51927 |
    | AJ0_VVN | 51381 |
    | AJC | 196473 |
    | AJS | 91616 |
    | AV0_AJ0 | 79817 |
    | NN1_AJ0 | 239907 |
    | VVD_AJ0 | 16408 |
    | VVG_AJ0 | 118635 |
    | VVN_AJ0 | 112518 |
    |-------------------|
    | total: | 7829715 |
    +---------+---------+

    Hope this is what you were looking for.
    Regards,
    Sebastian Hoffmann

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