Chapter 15: Making an essential word list for beginners

Kapitel in diesem Buch

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