Quantitative Approaches to Universality and Individuality in Language / / ed. by Makoto Yamazaki, Haruko Sanada, Reinhard Köhler, Sheila Embleton, Relja Vulanović, Eric S. Wheeler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Benešová, Barbora,; Chen, Xinying,; Cortelazzo, Michele A.,; Courtin, Marine,; Cvrček, Václav,; Embleton, Sheila,; Gatti, Franco M. T.,; Gerdes, Kim,; González Torre, Iván,; Hernández-Fernández, Antoni,; Kahane, Sylvain,; Kawasaki, Yoshifumi,; Kelih, Emmerich,; Litvinova, Olga A.,; Litvinova, Tatiana A.,; Liu, Haitao,; Lukeš, David,; Luque, Bartolo,; María Garrido, Juan,; Mačutek, Ján,; Mikros, George K.,; Milička, Jiří,; Motalova, Tereza,; Pawłowski, Adam,; Pelegrinová, Kateřina,; Sanada, Haruko,; Tsuchiyama, Gen,; Tuzzi, Arjuna,; Uritescu, Dorin,; Walkowiak, Tomasz,; Wang, Yawen,; Wheeler, Eric S.,; Yamazaki, Makoto,; Čech, Radek,
• HerausgeberIn: Embleton, Sheila,; Köhler, Reinhard,; Sanada, Haruko,; Vulanović, Relja,; Wheeler, Eric S.,; Yamazaki, Makoto,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Quantitative Linguistics [QL] , 75
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 229 p.)

Quantitative linguistic research reveals fascinating patterns in contemporary and historical linguistic data. The book offers insights from a broad range of languages, including Japanese, Slovene and Catalan. The reader is convinced that statistic empirical analysis – and increasingly also machine learning and big data – should be an essential part of any serious linguistic enquiry.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Editors’ Foreword -- Contents -- Why does negation of the predicate shorten a clause? -- The co-effect of Menzerath-Altmann law and heavy constituent shift in natural languages -- Does the century matter? Machine learning methods to attribute historical periods in an Italian literary corpus -- Too much of a good thing -- Linguistic laws in Catalan -- Dating and geolocation of medieval and modern Spanish notarial documents using distributed representation -- Cross-modal authorship attribution in Russian texts -- Free or not so free? On stress position in Russian, Slovene, and Ukrainian -- Unpacking lexical intertextuality: Vocabulary shared among texts -- The Menzerath-Altmann law in the syntactic relations of the Chinese language based on Universal Dependencies (UD) -- Statistical tools, automatic taxonomies, and topic modelling in the study of self-promotional mission and vision texts of Polish universities -- Quantitative characteristics of phonological words (stress units) -- Explorative study on the Menzerath- Altmann law regarding style, text length, and distributions of data points -- Quantitative analysis of the authorship problem of “The Tale of Genji” -- Revisiting Zipf’s law: A new indicator of lexical diversity -- A time-series analysis of vocabulary in Japanese texts: Non-characteristic words and topic words -- Authors’ addresses -- Name index -- Subject index