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  • Wolfgang Hilberg
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Exact Methods in the Study of Language and Text
This chapter is in the book Exact Methods in the Study of Language and Text

Chapters in this book

  1. i-vi i
  2. Viribus Quantitatis vii
  3. Contents xv
  4. A diachronic study of the style of Longfellow 1
  5. Zum Gebrauch des deutschen Identitätspronomens ‘derselbe’ als funktionelles Äquivalent von Demonstrativ- und Personalpronomina aus historischer Sicht 13
  6. Diversifikation bei Eigennamen 21
  7. Bemerkungen zu den Formen des Namens Schmidt 33
  8. Statistical parameters of Ivan Franko’s novel Perekhresni stežky (The Cross-Paths) 39
  9. Some remarks on the generalized Hermite and generalized Gegenbauer probability distributions and their applications 49
  10. New approaches to cluster analysis of typological indices 61
  11. Menzerath’s law for the smallest grammars 77
  12. Romanian online dialect atlas: Data capture and presentation 87
  13. Die Ausdrucksmittel des Aspekts der tschechischen Verben 97
  14. Quantifying the MULTEXT-East morphosyntactic resources 111
  15. A corpus based quantitative study on the change of TTR, word length and sentence length of the English language 123
  16. On the universality of Zipf’s law for word frequencies 131
  17. Die Morrissche und die Bühlersche Triade – Probleme und Lösungsvorschläge 141
  18. Die kognitive Semantik der ‘Wahrheit’ 153
  19. Kurzvorstellung der Korrelativen Dialektometrie 165
  20. A note on a systems theoretical model of usage 181
  21. Itemanalysen und Skalenkonstruktion in der Sprichwortforschung 193
  22. Do we have problems with Arens’ law? A new look at the sentence-word relation 205
  23. A language of thoughts is no longer an utopia 219
  24. Language subgrouping 225
  25. Contextual word prominence 237
  26. Das Menzerath-Gesetz in der Vulgata 245
  27. Toward a theory of syntax and persuasive communication 259
  28. Grapheme und Laute des Russischen: Zwei Ebenen – ein Häufigkeitsmodell? Re-Analyse einer Untersuchung von A.M. Peškovskij 269
  29. Zur Zeitoptimierung der russischen Verbmorphologie 281
  30. Ākāsha: between sphere and arrow – on the triple source for everything 287
  31. Quantitative analysis of co-reference structures in texts 317
  32. Anthroponym – Pseudonym – Kryptonym: Zur Namensgebung in Erpresserschreiben 331
  33. Quantitative linguistics within Czech contexts 343
  34. Semantic components and metaphorization 353
  35. Wortlängenhäufigkeit in J.W. v. Goethes Gedichten 361
  36. A general purpose ranking variable with applications to various ranking laws 371
  37. Wie schreibe ich einen Beitrag zu Gabriels Festschrift? 383
  38. Bemerkungen zum Menzerath-Altmannschen Gesetz 391
  39. Die Stärkemessung des Zusammenhangs zwischen den Komponenten der Phraseologismen 399
  40. Pairs of corresponding discrete and continuous distributions: Mathematics behind, algorithms and generalizations 407
  41. Linguistic numerology 415
  42. Towards the measurement of nominal phrase grammaticality: contrasting definite-possessive phrases with definite phrases of 13th to 19th century Spanish 427
  43. A network perspective on intertextuality 439
  44. Two semi-mathematical asides on Menzerath-Altmann’s law 449
  45. Stylometric experiments in modern Greek: Investigating authorship in homogeneous newswire texts 461
  46. On script complexity and the Oriya script 473
  47. Statistical analogs in DNA sequences and Tamil language texts: rank frequency distribution of symbols and their application to evolutionary genetics and historical linguistics 485
  48. Zur Diversifikation des Bedeutungsfeldes slowakischer verbaler Präfixe 499
  49. Ord’s criterion with word length spectra for the discrimination of texts, music and computer programs 509
  50. Indexes of lexical richness can be estimated consistently with knowledge of elasticities: some theoretical and empirical results 521
  51. Huffman coding trees and the quantitative structure of lexical fields 533
  52. Linguistic disorders and pathologies: synergetic aspects 545
  53. Text ranking by the weight of highly frequent words 555
  54. Frequency analysis of grammemes vs. lexemes in Taiwanese 567
  55. Are word senses reflected in the distribution of words in text? 575
  56. Humanities’ tears 587
  57. Wortlänge im Polnischen in diachroner Sicht 597
  58. The Menzerath-Altmann law in translated texts as compared to the original texts 605
  59. Different translations of one original text in a qualitative and quantitative perspective 611
  60. The effects of diversification and unification on the inflectional paradigms of German nouns 623
  61. Nicht ganz ohne . . . 633
  62. Satz: stoisches axíôma oder peripatetischer lógos? 647
  63. Using Altmann-fitter for text analysis: An example from Czech 659
  64. Local grammars in word counting 665
  65. Fitting the development of periphrastic do in all sentence types 679
  66. Language change in a communication network 689
  67. Die Suche nach Invarianten und Harmonien im Bereich symbolischer Formen 699
  68. Applying an evenness index in quantitative studies of language and culture: a case study of women’s shoe styles in contemporary Russia 709
  69. The weighted mid-P confidence interval for the difference of independent binomial proportions 723
  70. Gabriel Altmann: Complete bibliography of scholarly works (1960–2005) 735
  71. Tabula Gratulatoria In Honor of Gabriel Altmann 755
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110894219.219

Chapters in this book

  1. i-vi i
  2. Viribus Quantitatis vii
  3. Contents xv
  4. A diachronic study of the style of Longfellow 1
  5. Zum Gebrauch des deutschen Identitätspronomens ‘derselbe’ als funktionelles Äquivalent von Demonstrativ- und Personalpronomina aus historischer Sicht 13
  6. Diversifikation bei Eigennamen 21
  7. Bemerkungen zu den Formen des Namens Schmidt 33
  8. Statistical parameters of Ivan Franko’s novel Perekhresni stežky (The Cross-Paths) 39
  9. Some remarks on the generalized Hermite and generalized Gegenbauer probability distributions and their applications 49
  10. New approaches to cluster analysis of typological indices 61
  11. Menzerath’s law for the smallest grammars 77
  12. Romanian online dialect atlas: Data capture and presentation 87
  13. Die Ausdrucksmittel des Aspekts der tschechischen Verben 97
  14. Quantifying the MULTEXT-East morphosyntactic resources 111
  15. A corpus based quantitative study on the change of TTR, word length and sentence length of the English language 123
  16. On the universality of Zipf’s law for word frequencies 131
  17. Die Morrissche und die Bühlersche Triade – Probleme und Lösungsvorschläge 141
  18. Die kognitive Semantik der ‘Wahrheit’ 153
  19. Kurzvorstellung der Korrelativen Dialektometrie 165
  20. A note on a systems theoretical model of usage 181
  21. Itemanalysen und Skalenkonstruktion in der Sprichwortforschung 193
  22. Do we have problems with Arens’ law? A new look at the sentence-word relation 205
  23. A language of thoughts is no longer an utopia 219
  24. Language subgrouping 225
  25. Contextual word prominence 237
  26. Das Menzerath-Gesetz in der Vulgata 245
  27. Toward a theory of syntax and persuasive communication 259
  28. Grapheme und Laute des Russischen: Zwei Ebenen – ein Häufigkeitsmodell? Re-Analyse einer Untersuchung von A.M. Peškovskij 269
  29. Zur Zeitoptimierung der russischen Verbmorphologie 281
  30. Ākāsha: between sphere and arrow – on the triple source for everything 287
  31. Quantitative analysis of co-reference structures in texts 317
  32. Anthroponym – Pseudonym – Kryptonym: Zur Namensgebung in Erpresserschreiben 331
  33. Quantitative linguistics within Czech contexts 343
  34. Semantic components and metaphorization 353
  35. Wortlängenhäufigkeit in J.W. v. Goethes Gedichten 361
  36. A general purpose ranking variable with applications to various ranking laws 371
  37. Wie schreibe ich einen Beitrag zu Gabriels Festschrift? 383
  38. Bemerkungen zum Menzerath-Altmannschen Gesetz 391
  39. Die Stärkemessung des Zusammenhangs zwischen den Komponenten der Phraseologismen 399
  40. Pairs of corresponding discrete and continuous distributions: Mathematics behind, algorithms and generalizations 407
  41. Linguistic numerology 415
  42. Towards the measurement of nominal phrase grammaticality: contrasting definite-possessive phrases with definite phrases of 13th to 19th century Spanish 427
  43. A network perspective on intertextuality 439
  44. Two semi-mathematical asides on Menzerath-Altmann’s law 449
  45. Stylometric experiments in modern Greek: Investigating authorship in homogeneous newswire texts 461
  46. On script complexity and the Oriya script 473
  47. Statistical analogs in DNA sequences and Tamil language texts: rank frequency distribution of symbols and their application to evolutionary genetics and historical linguistics 485
  48. Zur Diversifikation des Bedeutungsfeldes slowakischer verbaler Präfixe 499
  49. Ord’s criterion with word length spectra for the discrimination of texts, music and computer programs 509
  50. Indexes of lexical richness can be estimated consistently with knowledge of elasticities: some theoretical and empirical results 521
  51. Huffman coding trees and the quantitative structure of lexical fields 533
  52. Linguistic disorders and pathologies: synergetic aspects 545
  53. Text ranking by the weight of highly frequent words 555
  54. Frequency analysis of grammemes vs. lexemes in Taiwanese 567
  55. Are word senses reflected in the distribution of words in text? 575
  56. Humanities’ tears 587
  57. Wortlänge im Polnischen in diachroner Sicht 597
  58. The Menzerath-Altmann law in translated texts as compared to the original texts 605
  59. Different translations of one original text in a qualitative and quantitative perspective 611
  60. The effects of diversification and unification on the inflectional paradigms of German nouns 623
  61. Nicht ganz ohne . . . 633
  62. Satz: stoisches axíôma oder peripatetischer lógos? 647
  63. Using Altmann-fitter for text analysis: An example from Czech 659
  64. Local grammars in word counting 665
  65. Fitting the development of periphrastic do in all sentence types 679
  66. Language change in a communication network 689
  67. Die Suche nach Invarianten und Harmonien im Bereich symbolischer Formen 699
  68. Applying an evenness index in quantitative studies of language and culture: a case study of women’s shoe styles in contemporary Russia 709
  69. The weighted mid-P confidence interval for the difference of independent binomial proportions 723
  70. Gabriel Altmann: Complete bibliography of scholarly works (1960–2005) 735
  71. Tabula Gratulatoria In Honor of Gabriel Altmann 755
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