Contributions to the Science of Text and Language

by Grzybek, Peter

• ISBN13: 9781402040696
• ISBN10: 1402040695
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-04
• Publisher: Springer Nature

Summary

This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a synergetic framework, the word turns out to be a central linguistic unit, as is clearly outlined in the Editor's preface. The book's first chapter is an extensive introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies. The studies included unify contributions from three important linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language and word length studies. The broad spectrum of word length studies covered within this volume will be of interest to experts working in the fields of general linguistics, text scholarship and related fields, and, understanding language as one example of complex semiotic systems, the volume should be of interest for scholars from other fields as well.

Table of Contents

Preface

On The Science of Language In Light of The Language of Science

History and Methodology of Word Length Studies

Information Content of Words in Texts

Zero-syllable Words in Determining Word Length

Within-Sentence Distribution and Retention of

Content Words and Function Words On Text Corpora, Word Lengths, and Word Frequencies in Slovenian

Primoz Jakopin

Text Corpus As an Abstract Data Structure

About Word Length Distribution

The Fall of the Jers in the Light of Menzerath's Law

Towards the Foundations of Menzerath's Law

Aspects of the Typology of Slavic Languages

Multivariate Statistical Methods in Quantitative Text Analyses

Word Length and Word Frequency

Developing the Croatian National Corpus and Beyond

About Word Length Counting in Serbian

Word-Length Distribution in Present-Day Lower Sorbian

Towards a Unified Derivation of Some Linguistic Laws Newspaper Texts

Contributing Authors

Author Index

Subject Index

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