Tabula Gratulatoria In Honor of Gabriel Altmann

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 13^th to 19^th 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