On the Quantitative Syntactic Characteristics of Fiction and Non-Fiction Historical Texts of the Twentieth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. 1 Quantitative Linguistics
4. On Semantic Quantitative Analysis 9
5. On Verbal Semantics from the Quantitative Point of View 19
6. A Contribution to the Semantics of Modal Verbs from the Quantitative Point of View 31
7. On the Semantics of Pronominal Adverbs from the Quantitative Aspect 43
8. On the Semantic Analysis of Prepositions from the Quantitative Point of View 53
9. On Some Issues of the Reverse Dictionary of Words and Forms 65
10. On the Quantitative Syntactic Characteristics of Fiction and Non-Fiction Historical Texts of the Twentieth Century 75
11. On the Statistical Investigation of Explosives 85
12. A Note on the Thematic Character of the Subject in English in Comparison with Czech 95
13. The Interrelation between Rhythm and Metre in a Poetic Text 103
14. 2 Algebraic Linguistics
15. Remarks on Linearly Grammatizable Languages 113
16. On Projectoidity and Antiprojectoidity 119
17. The Role of Linguistics in the Development of Computers 125
18. Topic, Focus, and Reference 133
19. The Boundary between Lexicon and Grammar in the Meaning of the Sentence 143
20. Prepositions Expressing Appurtenance in Czech 151
21. Factual Content of a Communication and its Linguistic Expression in Applied Systems Based on Natural Language 161
22. Designing Meaning Negotiation Dialogues in DOSYS 171
23. Linguistic, Computational and Logical Aspects of Inferences 177
24. Some Problems of a Machine Translation Experiment 187
25. Disambiguating Interrogative Sentences through a Logical Analysis of Answers 195