The Uppsala Corpus: Abstract

Lönngren, Lennart (ed.), 1993. Chastotnyj slovar' sovremennogo russkogo jazyka.
(A Frequency Dictionary of Modern Russian. With a Summary in English.)
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Slavica Upsaliensia 32. 188 pp. Uppsala.
ISBN 91-554-3134-8.

This frequency dictionary is based on a corpus of some 600 Russian texts, consisting of a total of a million running words (word tokens), equally divided between informative and literary prose. Apart from a description of the corpus itself, it contains six lists of words showing the lexical data extracted from the corpus:

1. All homographic word forms in alphabetical order;
2. The most frequent lexemes;
3. The most frequent word forms;
4. The word forms that are most characteristic of informative prose;
5. The word forms that are most characteristic of literary prose;
6. All lexemes with an absolute frequency of at least 10 (in alphabetical order).

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