Academic Word List and Terminological Word List in the Register of Linguistics

doi:10.12339/j.issn.1673-8578.2022.02.007

Abstract

Abstract:

By using a linguistic corpus of over 560 thousand words which is processed by softwares including AntConc 3.5.8, we constructed a 469-word Linguistic Academic Word List (LAWL) and a 338-word Linguistic Terminological Word List (LTWL). LAWL, constructed by excluding General Service List (GSL) and Academic Word List (AWL), is discipline-specific and overlaps substantially with LTWL. LTWL does not have to exclude GSL or AWL and thus consequently comprises 73 words coming from GSL and AWL besides 265 words shared with LAWL.

Key words: General Service List (GSL), Academic Word List (AWL), Linguistic Academic Word List (LAWL), Linguistic Terminological Word List (LTWL)

CLC Number:

H083
H08

LIU Yuhong, YIN Ming. Academic Word List and Terminological Word List in the Register of Linguistics[J]. China Terminology, 2022, 24(2): 47-54.

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Freq	Lemma	Lemma + Word Form(s)	Freq	Lemma	Lemma + Word Form(s)
33 047	the	the 33047	14 656	in	in 14656
22 172	of	of 22172	10 059	to	to 10059
20 255	be	am 48 are 4350 be 3106 been 534 is 9853 m 1180 was 855 were 329	7223	language	language 5343 languages 1880
16 611	a	a 14134 an 2477	5583	that	that 5334 those 249
16 039	and	and 16039	4663	as	as 4663

Freq	Lemma	Lemma + Word Form(s)	Freq	Lemma	Lemma + Word Form(s)
33 047	the	the 33047	14 656	in	in 14656
22 172	of	of 22172	10 059	to	to 10059
20 255	be	am 48 are 4350 be 3106 been 534 is 9853 m 1180 was 855 were 329	7223	language	language 5343 languages 1880
16 611	a	a 14134 an 2477	5583	that	that 5334 those 249
16 039	and	and 16039	4663	as	as 4663

Freq	Lemma	Lemma+ Word Form(s)	Freq	Lemma	Lemma+ Word Form(s)
1830	conjurer	also 1830	73	relational	relational 73
1272	two	two 1272	70	directly	directly 70
1195	its	its 1195	70	postulate	postulate 15 postulated 30 postulates 25
835	their	their 835	69	finally	finally 69
819	l	l 819	69	namely	namely 69
749	analysis	analyses 40 analysis 709	69	particularly	particularly 69
480	following	following 480	69	really	really 69
447	his	his 447	67	making	making 67
447	natural	natural 447	67	typical	typical 67
443	them	them 443	66	analyzed	analyzed 66
416	distinction	distinction 365 distinctions 51	66	durative	durative 66
414	characteristic	characteristic 145 characteristics 269	64	inference	inference 46 inferences 18
401	european	european 388 europeans 13	64	reconstruct	reconstruct 13 reconstructed 36 reconstructing 13 reconstructs 2
362	relationship	relationship 233 relationships 129	64	similarly	similarly 64

Freq	Lemma	Lemma+ Word Form(s)	Freq	Lemma	Lemma+ Word Form(s)
1830	conjurer	also 1830	73	relational	relational 73
1272	two	two 1272	70	directly	directly 70
1195	its	its 1195	70	postulate	postulate 15 postulated 30 postulates 25
835	their	their 835	69	finally	finally 69
819	l	l 819	69	namely	namely 69
749	analysis	analyses 40 analysis 709	69	particularly	particularly 69
480	following	following 480	69	really	really 69
447	his	his 447	67	making	making 67
447	natural	natural 447	67	typical	typical 67
443	them	them 443	66	analyzed	analyzed 66
416	distinction	distinction 365 distinctions 51	66	durative	durative 66
414	characteristic	characteristic 145 characteristics 269	64	inference	inference 46 inferences 18
401	european	european 388 europeans 13	64	reconstruct	reconstruct 13 reconstructed 36 reconstructing 13 reconstructs 2
362	relationship	relationship 233 relationships 129	64	similarly	similarly 64

Freq	Lemma	Lemma+ Word Form(s)	Freq	Lemma	Lemma+ Word Form(s)
2935	linguistic	linguistic 1620 linguistics 1315	81	categorial	categorial 81
1525	semantic	semantic 886 semantics 639	81	transcription	transcription 70 transcriptions 11
1251	english	english 1251	80	hearer	hearer 69 hearers 11
1203	meaning	meaning 1071 meanings 132	80	spanish	spanish 80
737	speaker	speaker 297 speakers 440	79	genitive	genitive 79
713	phonetic	phonetic 378 phonetics 335	79	prefix	prefix 41 prefixes 38
680	syntactic	syntactic 680	79	restriction	restriction 27 restrictions 52
589	syntax	syntax 589	79	tone	tone 57 tones 22
583	phrase	phrase 426 phrased 4 phrases 153	79	variable	variable 48 variables 31
473	syllable	syllable 298 syllables 175	77	russian	russian 77
455	german	german 445 germans 10	77	segment	segment 35 segments 42
453	lexical	lexical 453	76	motivate	motivate 1 motivated 71 motivates 1 motivating 3
435	phonology	phonology 435	75	participant	participant 18 participants 57
422	constituent	constituent 226 constituents 196	73	auxiliary	auxiliaries 34 auxiliary 39