TY - GEN AU - Liu,Haitao AU - Liang,Junying TI - Motifs in language and text: Haitao Liu, Junying Liang ed T2 - Quantitative Linguistics/ edited by Reinhard Kohler & Hermann Moisl SN - 9783110474961 U1 - 410.151 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Berlin PB - De Gruyter KW - Motifs KW - Linguistics KW - Language Arts & Disciplines KW - Natural Language Processing N1 - Includes Bibliographical references, appendix & indexes; 1. Editor's forword 2. Persistency of higher oder motifs 3. On motifs and verb valency 4. Chinese word length motif and its evolution 5. Quantitative text classification based on POS-motifs 6. L-motif TTR for authorship identification in Hongloumeng and its translation 7. Length motifs of words in traditional and simplified Chinese scripts 8. Dependency distance motifs in 21 Indo-European languages 9. Word length distribution and text length: two important factors influencing properties of word length motifs 10. Quantitative genre analysis using linguistic motifs 11. The rank-frequency distribution of part-of -speech motif and dependency motif in the deaf larner's compositions 12. Quantitative properties of polysemy motifs in Chinese and English 13. The words and F-motifs in the modern Chinese versions of the gospel of mark 14. Motifs of generalized valencies 15. Index of names 16. Subject index N2 - The edited volume Motifs in Language and Text is the first collection of original research in the area of the quantitative analysis of motifs. It hosts a collection of contributions that give insight to linguistic motifs theoretically across different languages, text genres, and structural levels, such as lexical, syntactic, semantic etc., and also to the tentative efforts upon the practical applications of the linguistic motifs ER -