Advances in Corpus-based Contrastive Linguistics - Studies in honour of Stig Johansson

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284 Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús and Lara Moratón


Appendix 1
Size and list of texts used in the study

English # Clauses # Words
Reports 114 3,311
Commentaries 290 6,977
Total 404 10,288

Spanish # Clauses # Words
Reports 111 3,338
Commentaries 111 3,453
Total 222 6,791

English reports and commentaries

Text reference Author and title Source, year # Clauses # Words
Report 1 Adam Sage, ‘Dominique Strauss-
Kahn, head of the IMF, escapes
dismissal over affair’

Times online,
2008

11 341

Report 2 Carl Mortished, ‘Opec hawks
want to cut oil production to
keep up price’

Times online,
2008

16 422

Report 3 Suzy Jagger and Mike Harvey,
‘Microsoft results offer hope to
tech sector’

Times online,
2008

13 315

Report 4 Lilly Peel, ‘Dutch Government to
inject €10bn of fresh capital into
ING savings bank’

Times online,
2008

15 347

Report 5 Leo Lewis, ‘G7 ‘preparing to
drive down the yen’’

Times online,
2008

15 566

Report 6 Lilly Peel, ‘Ukraine agrees terms
of $16.5bn rescue by IMF’

Times online,
2008

5 121

Report 7 Grainne Gilmore, ‘Barclays
rejects government funding,
secures £5.8bn from Qatar
and Abu Dhabi’

Times online,
2008

21 593

Report 8 Gary Duncan, ‘US economy
officially on brink of recession’

Times online,
2008

18 606

Comment 1 Shlomo Ben-Ami, ‘The Bigger
Issue in Sudan’

The project
syndicate, 2009

33 798
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