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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824733603321

Autore

Köhler Reinhard

Titolo

Quantitative syntax analysis / / by Reinhard Köhler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, c2012

ISBN

1-280-59709-7

9786613626929

3-11-027293-8

3-11-027292-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Quantitative linguistics, , 0179-3616 ; ; 65

Classificazione

ET 610

Altri autori (Persone)

AltmannGabriel

Disciplina

415.01/51

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax

Computational linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-216) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The quantitative analysis of language and text -- 3. Empirical analysis and mathematical modelling -- 4. Hypotheses, laws, and theory -- References -- Subject index -- Author index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first book which brings together the fields of theoretical and empirical studies in syntax on the one hand and the methodology of quantitative linguistics on the other hand. The author provides the theoretical background for this enterprise on the basis of the philosophy of science and of linguistic considerations including a discussion of Chomsky's attitude against the application of statistical methods to syntactic phenomena. He gives a short introduction into the aims and methods of the quantitative approach to linguistics in general and to syntax in particular. The following chapters inform the reader about the measurement of syntactic properties, possibilities to acquire empirical data from syntactically annotated text corpora and the most common mathematical models and methods for the analysis of syntactic and syntagmatic material. Then, a number of prominent approaches and hypotheses about interrelations between properties of syntactic constructions are presented and evaluated on material from various languages and text kinds. Finally, the theory of synergetic



linguistics and its application to syntax is introduced including the integration of such famous hypotheses as Yngve's depth hypothesis and Hawkins's "Early immediate constituent" principle. The book concludes with a number of perspectives with respect to follow-up studies and extensions to the presented models with interfaces to neighbouring disciplines.