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Hapax Legomena and Language Typology

2008; Routledge; Volume: 15; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/09296170802326699

1744-5035

Ioan-Iovitz Popescu, Gabriel Altmann,

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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.