Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. 2. Problems and presentations 5
5. 3. The h- and related points 17
6. 4. The geometry of word frequencies 73
7. 5. The dynamics of word classes 87
8. 6. Thematic concentration of the text 95
9. 7. Crowding, pace filling and compactness 101
10. 8. Autosemantic text structure 111
11. 9. Distribution models 127
12. 10. The relation of frequency to other wordproperties 195
13. 11. Word frequency and position in sentence 203
14. 12. The type-token relation 231
15. 13. Conclusions 249
16. 14. Appendix: Texts 253
17. Backmatter 265