Recent Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics

✍ Scribed by Arjuna Tuzzi (editor); Martina Benešová (editor); Ján Macutek (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 292
• Series: Quantitative Linguistics [QL]; 70
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Editors’ Foreword
Table of Contents
Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Space: Discrimination of Loci in Eugene Onegin by A. S. Pushkin
Application of the Menzerath-Altmann Law to Contemporary Written Japanese in the Short Story Style
Menzerath-Altmann Law in Differently Segmented Texts
A New Universal Code Helps to Distinguish Natural Language from Random Texts
The Advantages of Quantitative Studies for Dialectology
Type-token relation for word length motifs in Ukrainian texts
Gender Identification in Modern Greek Tweets
Syntactic Complexity in Quantitative Linguistics
Measuring Proximity Between Source and Target Texts: an Exploratory Study
Evolutionary Derivation of Laws for Polysemic and Age-Polysemic Distributions of Language Sign Ensembles
Quantitative Studies in the Corpus of Nko Periodicals
The Co-occurrence and Order of Valency in Japanese Sentences
Authorship Attribution Using Political Speeches
Using Rates of Change as a Diagnostic of Vowel Phonologization
Diversification in the Noun Inflection of Old English
Tracing the History of Words
Grammar Efficiency and the Idealization of Parts-of-speech Systems
Structural Complexity of Simplified Chinese Characters
On the Robust Measurement of Inflectional Diversity
The influence of Word Unit and Sentence Length on the Ratio of Parts of Speech in Japanese Texts
References
Index of Names
Subject Index
Authors’ Addresses