Recent Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics

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Quantitative Linguistics is a rapidly developing discipline covering more and more areas of linguistic and textological research. The book represents an overview of the state of the art in Quantitative Linguistics, its scope and reach. Some of the topics: linguistic laws, frequency analyses, synergetic models of language, networks, part-of-speech systems, authorship attribution, polyfunctionality and polysemy, and opinion target identification. Editors’ Foreword Table of Contents Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Space: Discrimination of Loci in Eugene Onegin by A. S. Pushkin Application of the Menzerath-Altmann Law to Contemporary Written Japanese in the Short Story Style Menzerath-Altmann Law in Differently Segmented Texts A New Universal Code Helps to Distinguish Natural Language from Random Texts The Advantages of Quantitative Studies for Dialectology Type-token relation for word length motifs in Ukrainian texts Gender Identification in Modern Greek Tweets Syntactic Complexity in Quantitative Linguistics Measuring Proximity Between Source and Target Texts: an Exploratory Study Evolutionary Derivation of Laws for Polysemic and Age-Polysemic Distributions of Language Sign Ensembles Quantitative Studies in the Corpus of Nko Periodicals The Co-occurrence and Order of Valency in Japanese Sentences Authorship Attribution Using Political Speeches Using Rates of Change as a Diagnostic of Vowel Phonologization Diversification in the Noun Inflection of Old English Tracing the History of Words Grammar Efficiency and the Idealization of Parts-of-speech Systems Structural Complexity of Simplified Chinese Characters On the Robust Measurement of Inflectional Diversity The influence of Word Unit and Sentence Length on the Ratio of Parts of Speech in Japanese Texts References Index of Names Subject Index Authors’ Addresses