http://masterrussian.com/vocabulary/most_common_words_2.htm , Quizlet, Anki and other sites have lists that claim to be the top 1,000, but there is no indication of how the lists have been derived. I am looking for a list from the RNC (but I can't download from there, because the list is too big, i.a.), Ideally, the list would have English (or German or Spanish) translations and parts of speech or other indications of the actual meaning of the words clear (e.g., so that a word like "bank" is river bank or money bank, or whether "too" is also or overly.
Dear Dammers,
may be, this new Russian Frequency Dictionary (according to the RNC data) will help you:
О. Н. Ляшевская, С. А. Шаров, Частотный словарь современного русского языка (на материалах Национального корпуса русского языка). М.: Азбуковник, 2009, http://dict.ruslang.ru/freq.php .
Its lemmata frequency list is here: http://dict.ruslang.ru/freq.php?act=show&dic=freq_freq&title=%D7%E0%F1%F2%EE%F2%ED%FB%E9%20%F1%EF%E8%F1%EE%EA%20%EB%E5%EC%EC
Yes, the idea of the English and some other equivalents / parallels needs a proof because of their (Russian-English-…) lexical polysemy, you wrote about it. Do you wish to compare the frequency of the words in their first meanings?
With regards,
O.L.
There is an old (and questionable) paper “Word Frequency As a Philosophical World Picture” (=worldview) in: Учение Якова Абрамова в изложении его учеников. Составление и предисловие М. Н. Эпштейна Л О Г О С. Ленинградские
международные чтения по философии культуры. Книга 1. Разум. Духовность. Традиции. Л., Издательство Ленинградского университета, 1991, сс. 223-231 (http://www.emory.edu/INTELNET/fs_frequency.html). Unfortunately, I don’t know a special contrastive research devoted to Top 1,000 Frequency First Meanings, or Top 1,000 Frequency Second Meanings, and so on. I’ll be happy to read it.
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