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Quantitative Syntax Analysis

:	Reinhard Köhler
:	Quantitative Syntax Analysis
:	De Gruyter Mouton
:	9783110272925
:	Quantitative Linguistics [QL]ISSN
:	1
:	CHF 159.40
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:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
:	English

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This is the first book to bring together the fields of theoretical and empirical studies in syntax on the one hand and the methodology of quantitative linguistics on the other hand. An introduction into the aims and methods of the quantitative approach to linguistics in general and to syntax in particular prepares the reader for the following chapters, which inform about measurement and data acquisition methods and the most common mathematical models for the analysis of syntactic and syntagmatic material. Various examples illustrate how these models are applied and show the corresponding results.

< >Reinhard Köhler, Universität Trier, Germany.

	Contents	10
	Preface	8
	1 Introduction	12
	2 The quantitative analysis of language and text	20
	2.1 The objective of quantitative linguistics	20
	2.2 Quantitative linguistics as a scientific discipline	23
	2.3 Foundations of quantitative linguistics	24
	2.3.1 Epistemological aspects	25
	2.3.2 Heuristic benefits	26
	2.3.3 Methodological grounds	27
	2.4 Theory, laws, and explanation	30
	2.5 Conclusion	35
	3 Empirical analysis and mathematical modelling	38
	3.1 Syntactic units and properties	38
	3.2 Quantitation of syntactic concepts and measurement	40
	3.3 The acquisition of data from linguistic corpora	42
	3.3.1 Tagged text	43
	3.3.2 Tree banks	44
	3.3.3 Column structure	45
	3.3.4 Feature-value pairs	48
	3.3.5 Others	51
	3.4 Syntactic phenomena and mathematical models	53
	3.4.1 Sentence length	53
	3.4.2 Probabilistic grammars and probabilistic parsing	55
	3.4.3 Markov chains	56
	3.4.4 Word classes	57
	3.4.5 Frequency spectrum and rank-frequency distribution	68
	3.4.6 Frumkina’s law on the syntactic level	71
	3.4.7 Type Token Ratio	84
	3.4.8 Information content	95
	3.4.9 Dependency grammar and valency	103
	3.4.10 Motifs	125
	3.4.11 Gödel Numbering	137
	4 Hypotheses, laws, and theory	148
	4.1 Towards a theory of syntax	148
	4.1.1 Yngve’s depth hypothesis	149
	4.1.2 Constituent order	152
	4.1.3 The Menzerath-Altmann law	158
	4.1.4 Distributions of syntactic properties	161
	4.2 Structure, function, and processes	180
	4.2.1 The synergetic approach to linguistics	180
	4.2.2 Language Evolution	184
	4.2.3 The logics of explanation	185
	4.2.4 Modelling technique	188
	4.2.5 Notation	191
	4.2.6 Synergetic modelling in linguistics	194
	4.2.7 Synergetic modelling in syntax	197
	4.3 Perspectives	213
	References	216
	Subject index	228
	Author index	234