Edited by Adam Pawłowski, Sheila Embleton, Jan Mačutek and Aris Xanthos
This book is a panorama of contemporary quantitative linguistics, as developed over decades. It highlights the main topics of QL: statistical laws of language, taxonomy of linguistic phenomena, authorial attribution, quantitative analysis of syntax (e.g., dependency grammar), measurement of text… read more
Edited by Adam Pawłowski, Jan Mačutek, Sheila Embleton and George Mikros
Specialists in quantitative linguistics the world over have recourse to a solid and universal methodology. These days, their methods and mathematical models must also respond to new communication phenomena and the flood of data produced daily. While various disciplines (computer science, media… read more
Some quantitative properties of inflexional morphology of nouns in four Slavic languages (Czech, Russian, Slovak, and Slovene) are presented. We analyse the frequency behaviour of grammatical cases and the variability of noun word forms. The difference between a word form and its lemma is… read more
The linear dependency segment is a new language unit which combines word order with syntactic dependency structure. It has been demonstrated that it obeys the Menzerath-Altmann law. In this paper, we show that its rank-frequency distribution and length distribution also behave analogously to… read more
The paper studies the development of several properties of the reflexive enclitic sě/se dependent on a finite verb in the Czech language. We focus on the word order position of the reflexive and on the influence which the length of the initial phrase has on the position. We also investigate the… read more
Ten chapters from a Russian novel and its translations into Croatian, Serbian, and Ukrainian are automatically syllabified following the same approach in all four languages. Syllable frequencies and syllable length are modelled by probability distributions which are commonly used for frequency… read more
This paper presents an analysis of the relationship between the length of the initial phrase and the positions of pronominal enclitics in a clause. The hypothesis predicting the negative correlation between the length of the phrase and the proportion of enclitics in the post-initial position was… read more
