Contributions to the Science of Text and Language: Word Length Studies and Related Issues

Preface Peter Grzybek / On The Science of Language In Light of The Language of Science Peter Grzybek / History and Methodology of Word Length Studies Simone Andersen and Gabriel Altmann / Information Content of Words in Texts Gordana Antic, Emmerich Kelih and Peter Grzybek / Zero-syllable Words in Determining Word Length August Fenk and Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon / Within-Sentence Distribution and Retention of Content Words and Function Words Primoz Jakopin / On Text Corpora, Word Lengths, and Word Frequencies in Slovenian Reinhard Koehler / Text Corpus As an Abstract Data Structure Victor V. Kromer / About Word Length Distribution Werner Lehfeldt / The Fall of the Jers in the Light of Menzerath's Law Anatolij A. Polikarpov / Towards the Foundations of Menzerath's Law Otto A. Rottmann / Aspects of the Typology of Slavic Languages Ernst Stadlober and Mario Djuzelic / Multivariate Statistical Methods in Quantitative Text Analyses Udo Strauss, Peter Grzybek and Gabriel Altmann / Word Length and Word Frequency Marko Tadic / Developing the Croatian National Corpus and Beyond Dusko Vitas, Gordana Pavlovic-Lazetic and Cvetana Krstev / About Word Length Counting in Serbian Andrew Wilson / Word-Length Distribution in Present-Day Lower SorbianNewspaperTexts Gejza Wimmer and Gabriel Altmann / Towards a Unified Derivation of Some Linguistic Laws Contributing Authors Author Index Subject Index