Quantitative Linguistics

1. I. Quantitative Linguistics; 2. 1. The scope of quantitative linguistics; 3. 2. The object of quantitative linguistics; 4. 3. A note about the foundations of quantitative linguistics; 5. II. Methods of Research; 6. 1. Unit of population; 7. 1.1. Unit of population in lexical statistics; 8. 1.2. Unit of population in grammatical statistics; 9. 1.3. Unit of population in semantic statistics; 10. 1.4. Unit of population in other domains of quantitative linguistics; 11. 1.5. Conclusions; 12. 2. Problems of sampling the material; 13. 2.1. Sampling of material from the qualitative viewpoint; 14. 2.2. Sampling of material from the quantitative viewpoint; 15. 3. Some statistical and other characteristics common in quantitative linguistics; 16. 3.1. Frequency, rank, order; 17. 3.2. Mean; 18. 3.3. Variance and standard deviation; 19. 3.4. Frequency distribution; 20. 3.5. Coefficients; 21. 3.6. Correlation, correlation coefficient; 22. 3.7. Concepts of information theory, entropy, redundancy; 23. 3.8. Conclusions; 24. III. The Main Areas of Quantitative Linguistics; 25. 1. Lexical statistics; 26. 1.1. The object of lexical statistics; 27. 1.2. Problems of methods of investigation; 28. 1.3. Selected publications on lexical statistics; 29. 1.4. Conclusions; 30. 2. Grammatical statistics; 31. 2.1. The object of grammatical statistics; 32. 2.2. Methods of research; 33. 2.3. The components of grammatical statistics; 34. 3. Semantic statistics; 35. 3.1. The object of semantic statistics; 36. 3.2. Methods of research; 37. 3.3. Selected publications on semantic statistics; 38. 3.4. Conclusions; 39. IV. Other Domains of Quantitative Linguistics; 40. 1. Phonological statistics; 41. 1.1. The object of phonological statistics; 42. 1.2. Methods of research; 43. 1.3. Selected publications on phonological statistics; 44. 2. Graphemic statistics; 45. 2.1. The object of graphemic statistics; 46. 2.2. Methods of research; 47. 2.3. Selected publications on graphemic statistics; 48. 2.4. Conclusions; 49. 3. Stylistic statistics; 50. 3.1. The object of stylistic statistics; 51. 3.2. Methods of research; 52. 3.3. Selected publications on stylistic statistics; 53. 3.4. Conclusions; 54. 4. Typological statistics; 55. 4.1. The object of typological statistics; 56. 4.2. Methods of research; 57. 4.3. Selected publications in typological statistics; 58. 4.4. Conclusions; 59. 5. Statistics concerning the development of language(s); 60. 5.1. The object of quantification; 61. 5.2. Research methods; 62. 5.3. Selected publications on statistics concerning the development of language(s); 63. 5.4. Conclusions; 64. 6. Word-formation statistics; 65. V. The Application of the Results of Quantitative Linguistics; 66. 1. Linguistic applications; 67. 2. Applications in education; 68. 2.1. Teaching the mother tongue; 69. 2.2. Foreign language teaching; 70. 3. Interdisciplinary applications; 71. 4. Technical applications; 72. 5. Conclusions; 73. VI. Quantitative Linguistics and Computers; 74. VII. Perspectives of Quantitative Linguistics; 75. Notes; 76. References; 77. List of abbreviations of the analyzed texts and other language materials; 78. List of other abbreviations; 79. Name index; 80. Subject index