2.2 The Word Lists

The complete vocabulary of every text included in the program is available in the word lists. The content of a list depends on which folder or text has been selected. For example, if Goethe has been selected then every entry from the Goethe corpus in di-lemmata will appear in the word list. If a single folder is chosen then only the vocabulary from the texts in this folder will appear in the word list.

The word list will contain details on every lemma, lexeme, word class and frequency reflecting the chosen corpus. The list can be sorted by word stem, word class or frequency. By clicking on an example, the reference and the surrounding context of a word can be displayed.

There are a number of options and filters which enable the user to determine exactly what information should be included in any particular word list. For example, one could compile a list of a specific part of speech or several different ones or even all of them. Lexemes can be marked in one word list and these entries can be copied to other specially created word lists.

It is possible to devise lists according to morphological markers enabling analysis of word formation patterns such as all the forms that contain prefixes or suffixes, e.g. "Er...ung". Using these relatively simple means, a systematic and extensive analysis of a lemmatised vocabulary can be achieved.