Computational Analysis Of Predicational Structures In English
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The results of a computational analysis of all predications, finite and non-finite, in a one-million-word corpus of present-day American English (the "Brown Corpus") are presented. The analysis shows the nature of the syntactic differences among the various genres of writing represented in the data base, especially between informative prose and imaginative prose. The results also demonstrate that syntactic complexity, if defined as the number of predications per sentence, is not directly predictable from sentence length.
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