This completely updated edition of A Frequency Dictionary of German
contains the 5,000 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 Herder/BYU Corpus of Contemporary German. The
Dictionary contains spoken and written German, and represents
different genres, text types, registers, styles, and also regional
varieties.
The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and
curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in
a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and
computational linguists.
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, A Frequency Dictionary of German is an important new
resource.