BIBFRAME Work

Title

Quantification in linguistics and text analysis

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Selected papers of Gabriel Altmann

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Kelih, Emmerich (editor)
• Mačutek, Ján (editor)
• Koščová, Michaela (editor)
• Altmann, Gabriel (author )

Subject

• Discourse analysis--Statistical methods (LCSH)
• Linguistics--Statistical methods (LCSH)
• Grammar, Comparative and general--Quantifiers (LCSH)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• DDC: 415
• LCC: P138.5 .A48 2025 (Status: not used by assigner) (Status: upgraded prepub)
• DDC: 410.1/51

Content

• still image
• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

This volume contains the most important theoretical and methodological works of Gabriel Altmann (1931-2019). He is the founder of a specific school of quantitative linguistics, which focuses on the statistical analysis and interrelationship of linguistic features and characteristics. His approach concentrates on the construction of a general theory of linguistics. The theory is based on the relevance of linguistic laws (Zipf's, Menzerath's and Piotrowski's) and concepts of language as a self-regulating system. In contrast to approaches where quantitative methods are used as standard methodological tools, Altmann favours a "holistic" and epistemological view of problems of quantification of linguistic and textual phenomena.

Authorized Access Point

Altmann, Gabriel. Quantification in linguistics and text analysis

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