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Table 10. CREA frequencies for lexical negation^7
CREA order Absolute freq. Relative freq.- perder 11,890 77.93
- malestar 2,601 17.04
- implacable 1,678 10.99
- impecable 1,252 8.20
- idiota 1,345 8.81
- faltaban 1,434 9.39
- cruel 2,418 15.84
- carece 3,044 19.95
- anónima 1,216 7.97
- anónimo 1,314 8.61
- absurda 1,403 9.19
- absurdo 3,226 21.14
Table 11. Control CREA: lexical negation, quantitative data
Query item Population (N)
perder 1,296
absurdo 333
carece 353
malestar 313
cruel 218
implacable 147
faltaban 397
absurda 156
idiota 73
anónimo 123
Total 3,409Prepositional phrase. In order to testthe negative pattern sin + N in non-translated
Spanish, CREA was searched for all the combinations found in P-ACTRES. From
these a group of 47 different lemmas, including some recurrent ones, were used as
input query in CREA. The CREA written sub-corpora did not yield any instances
of seven of these combinations (sin guante, sin sanguijuelas, sin fricción [Eng glove-
less, leechless, frictionless], among others). The ten most frequent combinations
were selected for verification of target language fit, yielding a population of 445
instances. The querying combinations are shown in Table 12.- English equivalents are lose, discomfort, relentless, impeccable, idiot, missing, cruel, lack,
anonymous (masc. and fem.), absurd (masc. and fem.).