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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Volume 15, 2008 - Issue 4
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Hapax Legomena and Language Typology

Ioan-Iovitz Popescu Bucharest University
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Gabriel Altmann LüdenscheidCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 370-378 | Published online: 07 Oct 2008
 
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Abstract

Counting word forms one obtains more hapax legomena in highly synthetic languages than in highly analytic ones. We propose an index of analytism based exclusively on mechanical counting of word forms in text.

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