Volume 3, Issue 1

In this paper, Altmann’s (1993) model for rank orders will be tested as model for the diversification of loanwords in Japanese. The data are taken from Kawashima (1994).

This is a case study on disaster reports by means of text analysis. News articles (201,383 tokens) on the Wenchuan earthquake in China on May 12 th , 2008 were downloaded from China Daily and Reuters. Word Smith Tools 5.0 was employed to investigate the key keywords of the two media. By comparing the two key keyword lists of China Daily and Reuters, we find similarities and differences of the two media in their focuses in the disaster reports. The most obvious difference is that China Daily focused more on the government officials and rescuers whereas Reuters focused more on the victims, relief efforts and relevant economic and social issues. The differences are tentatively attributed to their different purposes and targeted audiences.

We report in this paper a corpus-based survey of the borrowed words from Latin, Greek and French and their use in contemporary English. The objective is to chart their occurrence and distribution across a set of different text categories and subject domains on the basis of the British National Corpus. The survey empirically shows that different text types demonstrate different distribution of borrowed words, which distinguish speech from writing and, within writing, academic prose from non-academic prose. The survey also shows that different subject domains also have their own preferences for borrowed words. While Greek words were generally found to be of limited use, the survey demonstrates in quantitative terms that Latin and French words tend to have a polarized distribution according to different genres and domains.

In the article one particular continuous function is used to fit cumulative grapheme rank frequencies from a parallel corpus. Furthermore some interrelations between the repeat rate, first rank frequency, mean and some theoretical parameters are shown

In the article, we examine the distribution of lemma-lengths and their polysemy in a French dictionary. The main aim is the relationship between lemma-length and lemma-polysemy. All data and tests confirm the existing hypotheses

This paper intents to determine whether the process of lexical borrowing from English into Russian between 1980 and 2004 abides by a regularity, known in linguistics as Piotrowski law.