Incidence matrices for -ness and -ity

The following data files are available for download.

CEEC, 17th century

Incidence matrices for -ness and -ity in the 17th-century part of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence (1998).

Browse the directory with all files. Some files are relatively large; compressed versions of those files are also available (with a suffix .zip or .gz).

incidence-ness-all.txt (0.5 MB) and incidence-ity-all.txt (0.3 MB): Incidence matrices for -ness and -ity in plain text format. These files can be used directly with our software; the file format is explained in the documentation of the software.

list-ness-all.txt and list-ity-all.txt: These files show the following information for each sample, in plain text format: the name of the sample, the number of running words, and a list of -ness or -ity which occur in the sample. Only distinct types are shown; the number of occurrences is omitted.

incidence.xls (3 MB): Incidence matrices in Microsoft Excel format. The first worksheet contains the incidence matrix for -ity and the second worksheet for -ness. Rows are samples, columns are types, and the last column is the number of running words.

summary-short.txt: Summary information on subcorpora. Plain text file, tabulator-separated values:

Column 1: suffix: -ness or -ity
Column 2: subcorpus: all samples (“all”), samples from women (“gf”), samples from men (“gm”), samples from 1600–1639 (“1600”), samples from 1640–1681 (“1640”), or combinations of these (e.g., “gf1600”)
Column 3: running words in the subcorpus
Column 4: suffix tokens
Column 5: suffix types
Column 6: suffix hapaxes

person-summary-short.txt: Summary information on samples. Plain text file, tabulator-separated values:

Column 1: name of the sample
Column 2: running words
Column 3: -ity tokens
Column 4: -ity types
Column 5: -ity hapaxes
Column 6: -ness tokens
Column 7: -ness types
Column 8: -ness hapaxes
Column 9: gender (“gf” or “gm”, see above)
Column 10: period (“1600” or “1640”, see above)

References

Tanja Säily and Jukka Suomela. “Comparing type counts: The case of women, men and -ity in early English letters.” In Corpus Linguistics: Refinements and Reassessments, edited by Antoinette Renouf and Andrew Kehoe, 87–109. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009.

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