First published in 1936, my edition of Michael West, A General Service
List of English Words (Longman, London 1953 - ISBN 0582525268) lists 7
subheadings for come, which had a total count of 7337 occurrences:
a) move towards the speaker - a man came - 41%
b) with the infinitive - come to clean thw indows AND come and clean the
windows - 6%
c) happen - come what may - 6%
d) be derived from - his money comes from his business - 6%
e) arrive, amount to - his turn will come AND it comes to £5 AND it is
yet to come - 13%
f) exhortation - Come on! AND Come, come, it's not that bad! AND Come
along! - 3%
g) various other phrasal verb compounds - the rest
Go: 8760 occurrences, 3 major subheadings
a) move - not printed in my edition, presumably the remainmder
b) reach, attain state of - go mad 3%
c) as a futurte tense indicator - I'm going to do it - AND other
compounf forms - go off= explode, go on= continue etc 23%
J-C Khalifa wrote:
> Sorry if this is an FAQ for corpora specialists, which I am not, but
> could someone tell me, or direct me to sources where I could find the
> relative frequency in standard (i.e. non-specialized) corpora of the
> English verbs COME and GO?
> Thnaks for your help,
>
> Jean-Charles Khalifa
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