Zipf and his heirs  

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Pustet, Regina

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 26 no. 1 (2004), page 1–25.
Topik: Usage-based models of language; Discourse analysis; Word frequency; Diachronic development of language
Fulltext: 26_01_Pustet.pdf (275.27KB)

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During the first half of this century, George Kingsley Zipf devised a comprehensive model of language mainly on the empirical basis of frequency counts in discourse. Although Zipf is remembered particularly for establishing the general formula ‘‘the higher the discourse frequency of a linguistic item, the shorter it will be’’, his model is complex enough to merit reevaluation especially in the light of more recent findings of discourse-based models of language and grammaticalization theory.

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