Evaluacion cuantitava del lexico periodistico

Our corpus comprises all editions of the Repubblica newspaper published en 1994. These have been analysed automatically to establish the newspaper's language richness and variety. Since the data have not been lematized, our analisys is based on all forms encountered in the corpus. The word in the corpus have been classified according to the following types: news, business and finance, politics, culture entertainment and sport. The classification follows the scheme developed for the Italian corpora project. Various statistical analyses will be presented and discussed.