Dominic Stewart teaches linguistics and Italian-English translation at the Department ofHumanities, University of Trento, Italy, havingpreviously taught at the Universities of Macerata,Bologna and Verona. He publishesmainly in the areas of corpus linguistics andtranslation.

• Acknowledgements – Introduction –The pervasiveness of frequency in language analysis and in language learning – Comparative frequencies of cognates and conventional equivalents across English and Italian – 3. The frequency of verb forms within specific grammatical categories as reported in English and Italian dictionaries – Passive and progressive labels in English monolingual learner’s dictionaries – The frequency of negatives in English and Italian – Lexical environment across English and Italian – Lexical and grammatical environment, a case study: English territory vs Italian territorio – Limitations of the research – Conclusion – References – Index