Table 1 Frequencies of lemmas MORIR, MATAR, and ASESINAR
From: ‘On the grammar of death’: the construal of death and killing in Colombian newspapers
CREA | CREA NEWSPAPERS | M_COP | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
raw f | normalised f | raw f | normalised f | raw f | normalised f | |
MORIR/MUERTE (to die/death) | 64,103 | 1.56 | 21,475 | 1.07 | 1086 | 43.71 |
ASESINAR/ASESINATO (to murder/murder) | 15,723 | 0.38 | 9658 | 0.48 | 1144 | 44.25 |
MATAR/MATANZA (to kill/killing) | 13,342 | 0.33 | 4461 | 0.22 | 518 | 16.86 |
Total | 93,168 | 2.27 | 35,594 | 1.77 | 2748 | 104.83 |