Recent Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2015

Recent Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics

Edited by: Arjuna Tuzzi, Martina Benešová and Ján Macutek

Volume 70 in the series Quantitative Linguistics [QL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110420296

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About this book

Quantitative Linguistics is a rapidly developing discipline covering more and more areas of linguistic and textological research. The book represents an overview of the state of the art in Quantitative Linguistics, its scope and reach. Some of the topics: linguistic laws, frequency analyses, synergetic models of language, networks, part-of-speech systems, authorship attribution, polyfunctionality and polysemy, and opinion target identification.

Author information

A. Tuzzi, University of Padua, Italy; M. Benešová, Palacký University, Czech Republic; J. Mačutek, Comenius University, Slovakia.

Frontmatter Accessible Download PDF	i
Editors’ Foreword Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	v
Table of Contents Accessible Download PDF	vii
Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Space: Discrimination of Loci in Eugene Onegin by A. S. Pushkin Sergey Andreev Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
Application of the Menzerath-Altmann Law to Contemporary Written Japanese in the Short Story Style Martina Benešová and Denis Birjukov Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	13
Menzerath-Altmann Law in Differently Segmented Texts Martina Benešová, Dan Faltýnek and Lukáš Hadwiger Zámečník Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	27
A New Universal Code Helps to Distinguish Natural Language from Random Texts Łukasz Dębowski Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	41
The Advantages of Quantitative Studies for Dialectology Sheila Embleton, Dorin Uritescu and Eric S. Wheeler Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	51
Type-token relation for word length motifs in Ukrainian texts Ján Mačutek Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	63
Gender Identification in Modern Greek Tweets George K. Mikros and Kostas Perifanos Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	75
Syntactic Complexity in Quantitative Linguistics Sven Naumann Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	89
Measuring Proximity Between Source and Target Texts: an Exploratory Study Adriana S. Pagano, Giacomo P. Figueredo and Annabelle Lukin Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	103
Evolutionary Derivation of Laws for Polysemic and Age-Polysemic Distributions of Language Sign Ensembles Vasiliy Poddubnyy and Anatoly Polikarpov Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	115
Quantitative Studies in the Corpus of Nko Periodicals Andrij Rovenchak Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	125
The Co-occurrence and Order of Valency in Japanese Sentences Haruko Sanada Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	139
Authorship Attribution Using Political Speeches Jacques Savoy Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	153
Using Rates of Change as a Diagnostic of Vowel Phonologization Betsy Sneller Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	165
Diversification in the Noun Inflection of Old English Petra C. Steiner Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	181
Tracing the History of Words Arjuna Tuzzi and Reinhard Köhler Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	203
Grammar Efficiency and the Idealization of Parts-of-speech Systems Relja Vulanović and Tatjana Hrubik-Vulanović Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	215
Structural Complexity of Simplified Chinese Characters Yanru Wang and Xinying Chen Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	229
On the Robust Measurement of Inflectional Diversity Aris Xanthos and Guillaume Guex Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	241
The influence of Word Unit and Sentence Length on the Ratio of Parts of Speech in Japanese Texts Makoto Yamazaki Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	255
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	267
References Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	267
Index of Names Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	269
Authors’ Addresses Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	281

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers and advanced students of quantitative language studies, corpus and computational linguistics.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 284
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 6
Keywords: quantitative linguistics; corpus studies; computational methods; 2014 conference; Qualico; Olomouc

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Published: October 16, 2015
ISBN: 9783110420296

Hardcover

Published: October 16, 2015
ISBN: 9783110419870