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QUANTITATIVE SYNTAX ANALYSIS - REINHARD KÖHLER ...

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.

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