Frequency Dictionary of German

<p>This completely updated edition of <i>A Frequency Dictionary of German </i>contains the 5000 most commonly used words of German today occurring in a 20-million-word corpus (compared to a 4.2-million-word corpus in the first edition). The basis of the frequency list is a significantly extended version of the <em>Herder/BYU Corpus of Contemporary German</em>. The <i>Dictionary </i>contains spoken and written German and represents different genres text types registers styles and also regional varieties.</p><p>The <em>Dictionary </em>provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design while former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9781138659780 as support material to provide the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguists.</p><p>The corpus is designed to represent the current German language as it is used in the real world. Useful as a reference for students and course designers alike <i>A Frequency Dictionary of German </i>is an important new resource.</p>