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Day: January 5, 2017

How many words does the Greek language have?

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Posted in categories: Ancient Greek, Linguistics, Mediaeval Greek

I wrote an extensive set of blog posts in 2009 under Ἡλληνιστεύκοντος (read them backwards), trying to deal with this question with a fixed(ish) corpus, that I was responsible for lemmatising: the TLG. It has a whole lot about the distinction between word tokens (individual instances of words), wordforms, and lemmata (dictionary words). It starts […]