Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Editors’ Foreword V
3. Contents VII
4. Why does negation of the predicate shorten a clause? 1
5. The co-effect of Menzerath-Altmann law and heavy constituent shift in natural languages 11
6. Does the century matter? Machine learning methods to attribute historical periods in an Italian literary corpus 25
7. Too much of a good thing 37
8. Linguistic laws in Catalan 49
9. Dating and geolocation of medieval and modern Spanish notarial documents using distributed representation 63
10. Cross-modal authorship attribution in Russian texts 73
11. Free or not so free? On stress position in Russian, Slovene, and Ukrainian 89
12. Unpacking lexical intertextuality: Vocabulary shared among texts 101
13. The Menzerath-Altmann law in the syntactic relations of the Chinese language based on Universal Dependencies (UD) 117
14. Statistical tools, automatic taxonomies, and topic modelling in the study of self-promotional mission and vision texts of Polish universities 131
15. Quantitative characteristics of phonological words (stress units) 147
16. Explorative study on the Menzerath- Altmann law regarding style, text length, and distributions of data points 161
17. Quantitative analysis of the authorship problem of “The Tale of Genji” 179
18. Revisiting Zipf’s law: A new indicator of lexical diversity 193
19. A time-series analysis of vocabulary in Japanese texts: Non-characteristic words and topic words 203
20. Authors’ addresses 217
21. Name index 219
22. Subject index 227