Köhler Quantitative Syntax Analysis

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-027292-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 65, 234 Seiten

Reihe: Quantitative Linguistics [QL]ISSN

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.

Zielgruppe

Linguists including scholars and students in neighbouring disciplines such as psycho-, socio- etc. linguists, corpus linguists, computational linguists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Köhler, Reinhard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;10
2;Preface;8
3;1 Introduction;12
4;2 The quantitative analysis of language and text;20
4.1;2.1 The objective of quantitative linguistics;20
4.2;2.2 Quantitative linguistics as a scientific discipline;23
4.3;2.3 Foundations of quantitative linguistics;24
4.3.1;2.3.1 Epistemological aspects;25
4.3.2;2.3.2 Heuristic benefits;26
4.3.3;2.3.3 Methodological grounds;27
4.4;2.4 Theory, laws, and explanation;30
4.5;2.5 Conclusion;35
5;3 Empirical analysis and mathematical modelling;38
5.1;3.1 Syntactic units and properties;38
5.2;3.2 Quantitation of syntactic concepts and measurement;40
5.3;3.3 The acquisition of data from linguistic corpora;42
5.3.1;3.3.1 Tagged text;43
5.3.2;3.3.2 Tree banks;44
5.3.3;3.3.3 Column structure;45
5.3.4;3.3.4 Feature-value pairs;48
5.3.5;3.3.5 Others;51
5.4;3.4 Syntactic phenomena and mathematical models;53
5.4.1;3.4.1 Sentence length;53
5.4.2;3.4.2 Probabilistic grammars and probabilistic parsing;55
5.4.3;3.4.3 Markov chains;56
5.4.4;3.4.4 Word classes;57
5.4.5;3.4.5 Frequency spectrum and rank-frequency distribution;68
5.4.6;3.4.6 Frumkina’s law on the syntactic level;71
5.4.7;3.4.7 Type Token Ratio;84
5.4.8;3.4.8 Information content;95
5.4.9;3.4.9 Dependency grammar and valency;103
5.4.10;3.4.10 Motifs;125
5.4.11;3.4.11 Gödel Numbering;137
6;4 Hypotheses, laws, and theory;148
6.1;4.1 Towards a theory of syntax;148
6.1.1;4.1.1 Yngve’s depth hypothesis;149
6.1.2;4.1.2 Constituent order;152
6.1.3;4.1.3 The Menzerath-Altmann law;158
6.1.4;4.1.4 Distributions of syntactic properties;161
6.2;4.2 Structure, function, and processes;180
6.2.1;4.2.1 The synergetic approach to linguistics;180
6.2.2;4.2.2 Language Evolution;184
6.2.3;4.2.3 The logics of explanation;185
6.2.4;4.2.4 Modelling technique;188
6.2.5;4.2.5 Notation;191
6.2.6;4.2.6 Synergetic modelling in linguistics;194
6.2.7;4.2.7 Synergetic modelling in syntax;197
6.3;4.3 Perspectives;213
7;References;216
8;Subject index;228
9;Author index;234

Über Autor(innen)

Reinhard Köhler, Universität Trier, Germany.