Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. I. Quantitative Linguistics
4. 1. The scope of quantitative linguistics 11
5. 2. The object of quantitative linguistics 13
6. 3. A note about the foundations of quantitative linguistics 15
7. II. Methods of Research
8. 1. Unit of population 17
9. 2. Problems of sampling the material 24
10. 3. Some statistical and other characteristics common in quantitative linguistics 47
11. III. The Main Areas of Quantitative Linguistics
12. 1. Lexical statistics 67
13. 2. Grammatical statistics 100
14. 3. Semantic statistics 134
15. IV. Other Domains of Quantitative Linguistics
16. 1. Phonological statistics 145
17. 2. Graphemic statistics 155
18. 3. Stylistic statistics 160
19. 4. Typological statistics 177
20. 5. Statistics concerning the development of language(s) 181
21. 6. Word-formation statistics 188
22. V. The Application of the Results of Quantitative Linguistics
23. 1. Linguistic applications 190
24. 2. Applications in education 192
25. 3. Interdisciplinary applications 197
26. 4. Technical applications 198
27. 5. Conclusions 199
28. VI. Quantitative Linguistics and Computers 200
29. VII. Perspectives of Quantitative Linguistics 203
30. Notes 208
31. References 209
32. List of abbreviations of the analyzed texts and other language materials 239
33. List of other abbreviations 241
34. Name index 243
35. Subject index 248