Frequency Analysis of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar

This volume presents the results of a lexical and grammatical analysis of a one-million-word corpus of present-day American English, originally assembled at Brown University in 1963-64 and thus commonly referred to by researchers interested in text analysis as the Brown Corpus. The Brown Corpus, which was compiled with the view of making it broadly representative of current edited American English, contains selections from five hundred samples belonging to fifteen different genres of writing. The genres ranges from newspaper reportage to technical writing, and from philosophical essays to various kinds of fiction.