Founding Editor: Gabriel Altmann The series Quantitative Linguistics publishes books on all
aspects of quantitative methods and models in linguistics text analysis and related research
fields. Specifically the scope of the series covers the whole spectrum of theoretical and
empirical research ultimately striving for an exact mathematical formulation and empirical
testing of hypotheses: observation and description of linguistic data application of methods
and models discussion of methodological and epistemological issues modelling of language and
text phenomena.