Quantitative and corpus linguistics

• there is a lot of ground for fruitful cooperation

• quantitative and corpus linguistic approaches are complementary

• corpus linguistics gives quantitative linguistics

  • large amounts of data
  • for more variables
  • possibility to test and define parameters

• quantitative linguistics gives corpus linguistics

  • tools to discrete segmentation of text continuum
  • resulting in discrete classes / units

• quantitative and corpus linguistics should work in synergy

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