Which English words are most distinctive of American English? Which Spanish verbs have a strong tendency to occur in the gerund? Which English nouns are most often used in the plural? All these questions can be answered in quite a straightforward with a suitable corpus with appropriate markup. The task usually takes a moderate amount of programming. We present a tool which means that it is easy to produce lists of this kind-and many others-which needs no further programming. The work takes place in the framework of a leading corpus query tool.
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1. Computational Lexicography and Lexicology
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@InProceedings{ELX08-027, author = {Adam Kilgarriff, Pavel Rychlý}, title = {Finding the Words Which are Most X}, pages = {433-436}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th EURALEX International Congress}, year = {2008}, month = {jul}, date = {15-19}, address = {Barcelona, Spain}, editor = {Elisenda Bernal, Janet DeCesaris}, publisher = {Institut Universitari de Linguistica Aplicada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra}, isbn = {978-84-96742-67-3}, }
