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• History of quantitative linguistics
  ...lications of Markov chains were restricted to some efforts with respect to textual units and to phonology. (In modern computational linguistics and in natural ...the observations and to find a mathematical formula for the corresponding function – the famous “Zipf’s Law”. Zipf and others observed the same kind o
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• Register (discourse)
  ...ing on the situational context, the participants of a conversation and the function of the language in the discourse (cf. Halliday 1989, 44). According to [htt ...ample, a fairy tale (in written form) may have a narrative or entertaining function. A spoken conversation can be argumentative (in a discussion) or [http://en
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• Boris Isaakovič Jarcho
  ...inguistic] analysis.” The second auxiliary discipline, statistics, has the function to support the exact and „objective“ analysis of the underlying morphol ...e historical changes within literature (cf. Jarcho 1984a: 22). The primary function of the analysis of text characteristics aims at an exact description of cha
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• Cohesion
  ...ludes the text (the linguistic environment), reference takes on a cohesive function” (HALLIDAY & HASAN 1994:226f.). Endophoric reference points to the textual environment of a given element can be either '''anaphoric''' or '''cataphor
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• Aims and methods of quantitative linguistics
  ...e parts of mathematics (e.g., analysis, probability theory and statistics, function theory, differential and difference equations) must be added to the qualita ...d precision of the possible statements on the properties of linguistic and textual objects. Exactness depends, in fact, on two factors:
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• Jerzy Woronczak
  ...sibilities which multidimensional analysis had to offer in the taxonomy of textual objects. He knew the works of J. Czekanowski³ , whom he met in W ...h served not only an aesthetic, but also, and perhaps foremost, a mnemonic function. Secondly, one could imagine that the author, writing of events remote in t
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