Historical shifts with the into-causative construction in American English." Linguistics 57: 29-58. (With Jong-Bok Kim) Sorting them all out: Exploring the separable phrasal verbs of English." System 76: 197-209. (With Dee Gardner) The Evolution of Causative Constructions in Spanish and Portuguese." In Current Research in Romance Linguistics, ed. John Amastae, et al. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1995. 105-122.

Based on a twenty million word corpus evenly divided between spoken, fiction and non-fiction texts from both Spain and Latin America, the Dictionary provides a detailed frequency-based list, as well as alphabetical and part-of-speech indexes to ensure maximum ease of access to the information and efficiency of use. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. Expanding Horizons in the Study of World Englishes with the 1.9 Billion Word Global Web-Based English Corpus (GloWbE)." English World-Wide 36: 1-28. (With Robert Fuchs)Here, too, specific conjugations of verbs make it onto the list, so you might find various versions of the same verb more than once. To avoid this issue, you can view the same list with all the verbs removed, for a total of 3,700 truly individual action words. 6. 5,000 Most Frequent Spanish Words on Memrise

But you don’t have to know them all. In fact, knowing just 5-7% of a language’s vocabulary lets you understand about 90-95% of it. Constitución de corpus crecientes del español". In Giovanni Parodi, Pascual Cantos, Chad Howe. The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Corpus Linguistics. (With Giovanni Parodi)According to the book, the first 500 words are 75% of typical conversational vocabulary. By mastering this small set of core vocabulary, you should be able to communicate with ease! 3. “Spanish-English Frequency Dictionary”