TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Koplenig, Alexander T1 - Using the parameters of the Zipf–Mandelbrot law to measure diachronic lexical, syntactical and stylistic changes – a large-scale corpus analysis JF - Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory N2 - Using the Google Ngram Corpora for six different languages (including two varieties of English), a large-scale time series analysis is conducted. It is demonstrated that diachronic changes of the parameters of the Zipf–Mandelbrot law (and the parameter of the Zipf law, all estimated by maximum likelihood) can be used to quantify and visualize important aspects of linguistic change (as represented in the Google Ngram Corpora). The analysis also reveals that there are important cross-linguistic differences. It is argued that the Zipf–Mandelbrot parameters can be used as a first indicator of diachronic linguistic change, but more thorough analyses should make use of the full spectrum of different lexical, syntactical and stylometric measures to fully understand the factors that actually drive those changes. KW - Zipf’s law KW - power law KW - lexical richness KW - vocabulary size KW - type token ratio KW - syntactic complexity KW - noun–pronoun ratio KW - diachronic corpus linguistics KW - time series analysis KW - Google Ngram Corpora Y1 - 2015 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-42233 SN - 1613-7035 SS - 1613-7035 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2014-0049 DO - https://doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2014-0049 N1 - Veröffentlicht in: Corpus linguistic and linguistic theory 2018 14(1) pp. 1-35. DOI 10.1515/cllt-2014-0049 siehe auch: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-73491 VL - 2015 IS - Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory SP - 1 EP - 34 ET - Ahead of print (April 2015) ER -