Syntactic Complexity in Quantitative Linguistics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Editors’ Foreword v
3. Table of Contents vii
4. Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Space: Discrimination of Loci in Eugene Onegin by A. S. Pushkin 1
5. Application of the Menzerath-Altmann Law to Contemporary Written Japanese in the Short Story Style 13
6. Menzerath-Altmann Law in Differently Segmented Texts 27
7. A New Universal Code Helps to Distinguish Natural Language from Random Texts 41
8. The Advantages of Quantitative Studies for Dialectology 51
9. Type-token relation for word length motifs in Ukrainian texts 63
10. Gender Identification in Modern Greek Tweets 75
11. Syntactic Complexity in Quantitative Linguistics 89
12. Measuring Proximity Between Source and Target Texts: an Exploratory Study 103
13. Evolutionary Derivation of Laws for Polysemic and Age-Polysemic Distributions of Language Sign Ensembles 115
14. Quantitative Studies in the Corpus of Nko Periodicals 125
15. The Co-occurrence and Order of Valency in Japanese Sentences 139
16. Authorship Attribution Using Political Speeches 153
17. Using Rates of Change as a Diagnostic of Vowel Phonologization 165
18. Diversification in the Noun Inflection of Old English 181
19. Tracing the History of Words 203
20. Grammar Efficiency and the Idealization of Parts-of-speech Systems 215
21. Structural Complexity of Simplified Chinese Characters 229
22. On the Robust Measurement of Inflectional Diversity 241
23. The influence of Word Unit and Sentence Length on the Ratio of Parts of Speech in Japanese Texts 255
24. Acknowledgments 267
25. References 267
26. Index of Names 269
27. Authors’ Addresses 281