Prague studies in mathematical linguistics. 8 / scientific editors, Eva Hajičová ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hajičová, Eva.

Series:

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe ; v. 17.

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe (LLSEE), 0165-7712 ; v. 17

Prague studies in mathematical linguistics ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1983.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The papers in this volume are divided into two sections. Part 1 Quantitative Linguistics contains contributions by Marie Těšitelová; M. Ludvíková; H. Confortiová; Ludmila Uhlířová; I. Nebeská; Jan Králík; J. Krámský; L. Klimeš; J. Štěpán; Z. Lišková. Part 2 Algebraic Linguistics contains contributions by M. Novotný; L. Nebeský; Petr Sgall; Eva Hajičová; Jarmila Panevová; Petr Piťha; J. Sabol; Zdenek Kirschner; P. Jirků & Petr Sgall; Eva Buráňová & Svatava Machová; Pavel Materna.

Contents:

PRAGUE STUDIES IN MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; 1 Quantitative Linguictics; SOME QUANTITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF NON-FICTION TEXTS IN PRESENT-DAY CZECH; I. Text-formative features; II. Typological features; QUANTITATIVE ASPECTS OF VERB CATEGORIES (Based on Present-Day Czech Non-Fiction Texts); 1. Category of person; 2. Category of number; 3. Category of mood; 4. Category of tense; 5. Category of voice; 6. Categories of infinitive and participles; ON THE PROBLEM OF PREPOSITIONS IN NON-FICTION STYLE

SIMPLE SENTENCE STRUCTURE FROM THE QUANTITATIVE POINT OF VIEW (Based on Present-Day Czech Non-Fiction Texts)1. Introduction; 2. Data, their analysis and interpretation; 3. Conclusion; COMPOUND/COMPLEX SENTENCES IN NON-FICTION TEXTS; 1. The number of simple sentences vs. the number of compound/complex sentences; 2. The most frequent patterns of the compound/complex sentences; 3. The length of the compound/complex sentences; 4. Frequencies of subordinate clauses; 5. Basic data concerning the order of clauses; 6. Connective means; 7. Conclusion; SOME NOTES ON FREQUENCY - RANK RELATION

Pareto' s modelFirst result; Second result; Independent model; Assumption; Third result; Conclusion; A STYLOSTATISTICAL EXAMINATION OF CONJUNCTIONS IN MODERN ENGLISH; 1. The data on the quantitative examination of English conjunciions; 2. The frequency of occurrence of conjunctions in the characterization of the individual styles examined; 3. The frrquency of occurrence of individual conjunctions; 3.1. The number of different conjunctions; 3.2. The frequency of occurrence of individual conjunctions in the styles examined; 3.3. Analysis of the samples of particular styles; 4. Conclusion

ON SOME QUANTITATIVE ASPECTS OF THE SENTENCES IN PALACKÝ'S WORKS1. Introductory; 1.1. Aim of this article; 1.2. Terminological notes; 2. Structure of sentence; 3. Number of words in the sentence; 4. Position of the finite verb; 5. Conclusions; ON SOME ASPECTS OF SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY IN FICTION STYLE; INTERSENTENTIAL CONNECTIONS IN JOURNALISTIC TEXT; Appendix; 2 Algebraic Linguistics; ON AN EFFECTIVE CONSTRUCTION OF A GRAMMAR GENERATING A GIVEN LANGUAGE; 1. Introduction; 2. Construction of a generalized grammar with linear productions generating a given language

3. Congruence on the unary algebra (C*, C)4. Construction of a grammar by means of a finite number of fragments; 5. Example; A NOTE ON STRUCTURAL HOMONYMY AND WORD ORDER; TOO MANY PARADIGMS?; REMARKS ON THE MEANINGS OF CASES; ADNOMINAL GENITIVE IN THE FUNCTIONAL GENERATIVE DESCRIPTION OF CZECH; THE INTERRELATION BETWEEN A PHONE, A PHONEME AND A MORPHOPHONEME; MOSAIC - A METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF TERMINOLOGICAL ELEMENTS FROM TEXTS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE; A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM BASED ON NATURAL LANGUAGE INFERENCING; ON THE LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF A QUERY SYSTEM

ON UNDERSTANDING AND BELIEVING

Notes:

"Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-32874-7

9786613328748

90-272-8038-X

OCLC:

797919132