1st Edition

A Frequency Dictionary of Russian core vocabulary for learners

    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    A Frequency Dictionary of Russian is an invaluable tool for all learners of Russian, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language and the 300 most frequent multiword constructions.

    The dictionary is based on data from a 150-million-word internet corpus taken from more than 75,000 webpages and covering a range of text types from news and journalistic articles, research papers, administrative texts and fiction.

    All entries in the rank frequency list feature the English equivalent, a sample sentence with English translation, a part of speech indication, indication of stress for polysyllabic words and information on inflection for irregular forms.

    The dictionary also contains twenty-six thematically organised and frequency-ranked lists of words on a variety of topics, such as food and drink, travel, and sports and leisure.

    A Frequency Dictionary of Russian enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way. It is also a rich resource for language teaching, research, curriculum design, and materials development.

    Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415521420 as support material. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research purposes.

    Introduction; frequencyindex Frequency index; alphabeticalindex Alphabetical index; Part sofspeech Part-of-speech index; mostcommonmultiwordexpressions Most common multiword expressions;

    Biography

    Serge Sharoff is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Translation Studies within the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds. Elena Umanskaya is a freelance teacher of Russian as a foreign language. James Wilson is Research Fellow at the Centre for Translation Studies within the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Leeds.