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Menzerath-Altmann Law for Syntactic Structures in Ukrainian

Buk, Solomija, Rovenchak, Andrij

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

In the general form, such a dependence can be formulated as follows: the longer is the construct the shorter are its constituents. Later on, this fact was put in a mathematical form by Gabriel Altmann [1]. Now it is known as the Menzerath-Altmann law and is considered to be one of the general linguistic laws with evidences reaching far beyond the linguistic domain itself [2]. The mentioned relationship is studied on various levels of language units, such as syllable-word, morpheme-word, etc. While the word-sentence seems to be the most straightforward generalization on the syntactic level, it appears that in fact an intermediate unit must be introduced in this scheme [3, p. 283]. Usually, this intermediate unit are thought to be phrases or clauses, which are direct constituents of the sentence [4]. We would like to note, however, that the notion of clause is not well elaborated in Eastern European linguistic traditions [5], including Ukrainian (cf.


Statistical Parameters of the Novel "Perekhresni stezhky" ("The Cross-Paths") by Ivan Franko

Buk, Solomija, Rovenchak, Andrij

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Year 2006 is the 150th anniversary of Ivan Franko (1856-1916), the prominent Ukrainian writer, poet, publicist, philosopher, sociologist, economist, translator-polyglot and the public figure. His incomplete collected works were published in 50 volumes (Franko, 1976-86). With this name the notion of national identity in the Western Ukraine is connected. Franko's works have intensive plot and interesting topic.