Lexicon-Corpora

1. Basic frequency listing ("top xx words")

   1. What could you use this info for?

2. What are most frequent verbs? prepositions? adjectives?

3. Collocates

   1. Nearby: * house, white *

   2. Wide-range: woman, brick, snort

4. By register

   1. nouns in ads

   2. adjectives in tabloid newspapers

   3. verbs in medical

   4. adverbs in sermons

      1. What could you use this for?

5. Lexical bundles

6. Lexical or grammatical?

   1. I [vv*] to, I [vv*] that

   2. from [n*] to [n*]

   3. [vvi] * into [vvg]

   4. this [v*] in with

7. Comparing related words

   1. V: smash / hit [nn*]

   2. ADJ: big / large [nn*]

   3. N: [vvi] the house / home

   4. collocates: N, V, ADJ ??

1. Thesauruses (thesauri? :-)

   1. Thesaurus.com

   2. VisualThesaurus.com

   3. Roget's thesaurus

   4. Merriam-Webster

   5. Encarta

   6. RhymeZone

2. WordNet

   1. Princeton

   2. Japan

3. COCA/BNC: WordNet

   1. [=word] (synonyms: same meaning)

   2. [=wicked] [nn*]

   3. [=good] [nn*]

   4. [=eat] the

4. Neologisms (new words)

   1. WordSpy

   2. Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

   3. Compare to BNC / Google

5. Miscellaneous

   1. Many dictionaries -- one search form

   2. World Wide Words

   3. Glossarist.com

   4. Just the Word

   5. Big list of resources