Analytical procedures and techniques employed to determine different types of analytes in environmental matrices are of growing interest to analysts. The tasks and trends in the field of environmental analytics and monitoring are discussed in this chapter. In general, these trends fall into two main categories: development and validation of new analytical procedures design and introduction into...

Lexica l Syn t ac t i c Se ma n t i c Stylistic Stylistic Stylistic G r a m m a r G r a m m a r G r a m m a r Figure 1 A stylistic grammar. of primitive stylistic elements and rules for combining them. At the central level, we use a single vocabulary of abstract elements, stylistic terms that are maximally expressive. Rules relate these abstract elements to patterns of lexical, syntactic, and s...

ness, concreteness, staticness, or dynamism. The other grammar-based approach to assessing stylistic goals was implemented by Ryan et al. (1992). The stylistic goals of this grammar (with settings in brackets) are as follows: emphasis (emphatic, neutral, at); clarity (clear, neutral, obscure); and dynamism (dynamic, neutral, static). In this grammar, the basis for evaluating these goals was sem...

Lexica l Syn t ac t i c Se ma n t i c Stylistic Stylistic Stylistic G r a m m a r G r a m m a r G r a m m a r Figure 1 A stylistic grammar. of primitive stylistic elements and rules for combining them. At the central level, we use a single vocabulary of abstract elements, stylistic terms that are maximally expressive. Rules relate these abstract elements to patterns of lexical, syntactic, and s...

In this paper we present the results of a study investigating the diachronic changes of four stylistic features: average sentence length, Automated Readability Index, lexical density and lexical richness in 20th century written English language. All experiments were conducted on the largest existing diachronic corpora of British and American English – the Brown ‘family’ corpora, employing NLP t...