Subject Totals

Total Number of Lexical and Pronominal Subjects

A TGREP search of the SWITCHBOARD corpus produced 31,021 declarative sentences with overt subjects. The distribution of lexical and pronominal subjects is shown in Table 1 and Figure 1:

Number Percentage

Lexical Subjects 2,858 9%

Pronominal Subjects 28,163 91%

Table 1. Subject type distribution for 31,021 declarative sentences. Return to Contents

	Number	Percentage
Lexical Subjects	2,858	9%
Pronominal Subjects	28,163	91%