Статистика базовых словоформ монгольского языка: краткий ранговый частотный словарь словоформ с категориально-семантической разметкой

Abstract

The article contains a concise frequency ranking dictionary of Mongolian word forms ― a list representing a basic vocabulary of modern Mongolian. The General Corpus of Modern Mongolian (Rus. GKMYa) served as a source of data to calculate frequencies of respective word forms. A most distinctive feature of the dictionary is that the introduced items have been structured categorially and semantically. The latter shall contribute to resolve further typological tasks with respect to world languages, i. e., it is reckoned to secure potential typological compatibility of the dictionary with similarly structured dictionaries of other languages. The work is based on principles of quantitative Mongolistics developed by the author in a number of preceding papers. So, the article provides 454 basic modern Mongolian word forms applied within GKMYa-1a, the absolute frequency of use exceeding 255 ipm and the relative one exceeding 220 ipm respectively. The table includes: (I.) name of a word form acc. to its quasi-orthographic record. A quasi-orthographic record differs from an essentially orthographic one in that the whole of case differences (upper case / lower case) are discarded; (II.) generalized grammatem (i. e., this includes not only grammatems as such but also clusters of homographic grammatems); (III.) generalized lexeme (i. e., this includes not only lexemes as such but also clusters of homographic lexemes); (IV.) semantic marking gloss attached to a certain word form or lexeme (strictly speaking, it is attached to a member of the cluster of homographic segments coinciding with the word form’s name). This column functions as an non-formal mnemonic reminder for the user/typologist (especially one with no expertise in Mongolian) clarifying a lexical meaning of that word form; (V.) categorial-semantic marking assigned to the word form (i. e., the cluster of homographic word forms) within GKMYa; (VI.) absolute frequency of the word form (i. e., the clustered homographic word forms) within GKMYa-1a; (VII.) rank of the word form (i. e., the clustered homographic word forms); (VIII.) number of GKMYa-1a-indexed texts to contain the word form (i.e., the cluster of homographic word forms); (IX.) rank of the word form (i. e., the cluster of homographic word forms) within the frequency dictionary in decreasing order by quantity of GKMYa-1a-indexed texts. The ranking dictionary of word forms is represented in the form of a table structured acc. to decreasing values of parameter VIII (and increasing values of parameter IX respectively).