Normalised Frequencies of Target Items

Appendix A: - Normalised Frequencies of Target Items

from Chapter 2 - Talking about (Non-)Canonicity

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2025

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Sven Leuckert: Affiliation:
Technische Universität Dresden
Teresa Pham: Affiliation:
Universität Vechta

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Information: Non-Canonical English Syntax
Concepts, Methods, and Approaches
, pp. 35

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108863858 [Opens in a new window]

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Appendix A: Normalised Frequencies of Target Items

Table 2.5Normalised frequencies (per 100 articles) and range (% of articles in which the term occurred) of ‘canonical’, ‘non-canonical’, ‘marked’, ‘unmarked’, ‘standard’, and ‘non-standard’ in six journals

The table presents normalized frequencies and range percentages for several linguistic terms across six journals. See long description.

Note. NF = normalised frequency.

Table 2.5Long description

The table is organized into columns representing the journals Cor, JEngL, J G L, J H L, JoL, and Syn. Each row contains the normalized frequency N F and the range percentage for the terms canonical, non-canonical, marked, unmarked, standard, and non-standard.

The data for the rows from left to right for each journal are as follows:

1. For the journal Cor.
- For N F, the corresponding values are 28.24, 12.21, 255.73, 76.34, 204.58, and 50.38.
- For range, the corresponding values are 6.11, 3.05, 64.12, 10.69, 61.83, and 15.27.
2. For the journal JEngL.
- For N F, the corresponding values are 82.64, 41.32, 244.63, 71.07, 594.21, and 165.29.
- For range, the corresponding values are 10.74, 4.96, 71.90, 21.49, 72.73, and 33.06.
3. For the journal J G L.
- For N F, the corresponding values are 144.33, 24.74, 248.45, 95.88, 1047.42, and 95.88.
- For range, the corresponding values are 17.53, 6.19, 69.07, 26.80, 83.51, and 19.59.
4. For the journal J H L.
- For N F, the corresponding values are 73.87, 28.83, 426.13, 163.96, 269.37, and 20.72.
- For range, the corresponding values are 20.72, 6.31, 71.17, 40.54, 62.16, and 5.41.
5. For the journal JoL.
- For N F, the corresponding values are 341.54, 91.28, 467.69, 206.67, 478.97, and 27.69.
- For range, the corresponding values are 37.44, 15.89, 74.87, 31.28, 78.46, and 10.26.
- For the journal Syn.
  - ○ For N F, the corresponding values are 96.09, 16.41, 350.00, 152.34, 341.41, and 16.41.
  - ○ For range, the corresponding values are 37.50, 8.59, 72.66, 28.91, 76.56, and 10.16.

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