目錄
Preface
1 Introduction
2 The quantitative analysis of language and text
2.1 The objective of quantitative linguistics
2.2 Quantitative linguistics as a scientific discipline
2.3 Foundations of quantitative linguistics
2.3.1 Epistemological aspects
2.3.2 Heuristic benefits
2.3.3 Methodological grounds
2.4 Theory, laws, and explanation
2.5 Conclusion
3 Empirical analysis and mathematical modelling
3.1 Syntactic units and properties
3.2 Quantitation of syntactic concepts and measurement
3.3 The acquisition of data from linguistic corpora
3.3.1 Tagged text
3.3.2 Tree banks
3.3.3 Column structure
3.3.4 Feature - value pairs
3.3.5 Others
3.4 Syntactic phenomena and mathematical models
3.4.1 Sentence length
3.4.2 Probabilistic grammars and probabilistic parsing
3.4.3 Markov Chains
3.4.4 Word classes
3.4.5 Frequency spectrum and rank - frequency distribution
3.4.6 Frumkina's law on the syntactic level
3.4.7 Type Token Ratio
3.4.8 Information content
3.4.9 Dependency grammar and valency
3.4.10 Motifs
3.4.11 G?del Numbering
4 Hypotheses, laws, and theory
4.1 Towards a theory of syntax
4.1.1 Yngve's depth hypothesis
4.1.2 Constituent order
4.1.3 The Menzerath - Altmann law
4.1.4 Distributions of syntactic properties
4.2 Structure, function, and processes
4.2.1 The synergetic approach to linguistics
4.2.2 Language Evolution
4.2.3 The logics of explanation
4.2.4 Modelling technique
4.2.5 Notation
4.2.6 Synergetic modelling in linguistics
4.2.7 Synergetic modelling in syntax
4.3 Perspectives
References
Subject index
Author index
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