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Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction xi
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Section 1: The uses of word lists
- Chapter 1: Word lists 3
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Section 2: Deciding what to count as words
- Chapter 2: Types, lemmas, word families 23
- Chapter 3: Homoforms and polysemes 41
- Chapter 4: Proper names 55
- Chapter 5: Hyphenated words and transparent compounds 65
- Chapter 6: Multiword units 71
- Chapter 7: Marginal words and foreign words 81
- Chapter 8: Acronyms 85
- Chapter 9: Function words 89
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Section 3: Choosing and preparing the corpus
- Chapter 10: Corpus selection and design 95
- Chapter 11: Preparation for making word lists 107
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Section 4: Making the lists
- Chapter 12: Taking account of your purpose 113
- Chapter 13: Critiquing a word list: the BNC/COCA lists 131
- Chapter 14: Specialized word lists 145
- Chapter 15: Making an essential word list for beginners 153
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Section 5: Using the lists
- Chapter 16: Using word lists 171
- Appendix 1: Proper noun tagging in the BNC 183
- Appendix 2: Closed lexical set headwords 187
- Appendix 3: The Essential Word List 188
- References 197
- Author index 207
- Subject index 209
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Introduction xi
-
Section 1: The uses of word lists
- Chapter 1: Word lists 3
-
Section 2: Deciding what to count as words
- Chapter 2: Types, lemmas, word families 23
- Chapter 3: Homoforms and polysemes 41
- Chapter 4: Proper names 55
- Chapter 5: Hyphenated words and transparent compounds 65
- Chapter 6: Multiword units 71
- Chapter 7: Marginal words and foreign words 81
- Chapter 8: Acronyms 85
- Chapter 9: Function words 89
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Section 3: Choosing and preparing the corpus
- Chapter 10: Corpus selection and design 95
- Chapter 11: Preparation for making word lists 107
-
Section 4: Making the lists
- Chapter 12: Taking account of your purpose 113
- Chapter 13: Critiquing a word list: the BNC/COCA lists 131
- Chapter 14: Specialized word lists 145
- Chapter 15: Making an essential word list for beginners 153
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Section 5: Using the lists
- Chapter 16: Using word lists 171
- Appendix 1: Proper noun tagging in the BNC 183
- Appendix 2: Closed lexical set headwords 187
- Appendix 3: The Essential Word List 188
- References 197
- Author index 207
- Subject index 209