Language law
Language laws are in linguistics or linguistics general statements about states or processes of change of language .
As a language law that understands Quantitative Linguistics a derived from theoretical assumptions (deduced) Act hypothesis formulated mathematically, stands with other laws interrelated and sufficiently verified by targeted empirical study, and have not refuted was. A law must apply to all languages in which the corresponding boundary conditions are met. They must therefore be distinguished from language rules as empirical generalizations. Phonetic laws only partially meet these conditions and are more like empirical generalizations.
The best known is the so-called Zipf law . Other (proposed and examined) language laws include:
- individual language change laws
- the Behaghel's laws
- the law of diversification
- Law of the frequency distributions of units of different complexity
- Martin's law
- Menzerath's law
- Rank-Frequency Laws
- Text block law
literature
- Gabriel Altmann : Language rules and explanation . In: Linguistic Reports 50, 1977, 31-37.
- Gabriel Altmann: Language Theory and Mathematical Models . In: Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, SAIS [= Seminar for General and Indo-European Linguistics] Working reports. H. 8, 1985, 1-13.
- Karl-Heinz Best : Quantitative Linguistics. An approximation . 3rd, heavily revised. u. Supplemented edition Peust & Gutschmidt, Göttingen 2006. ISBN 3-933043-17-4
- Reinhard Köhler : Subject and working method of quantitative linguistics . In: Reinhard Köhler, Gabriel Altmann, Rajmund G. Piotrowski (eds.): Quantitative Linguistics - Quantitative Linguistics. An international manual. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, pp. 1–16. ISBN 3-11-015578-8
- Reinhard Köhler: Synergetic Linguistics . In: Reinhard Köhler, Gabriel Altmann, Rajmund G. Piotrowski (eds.): Quantitative Linguistics - Quantitative Linguistics. An international manual. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, pp. 760–774. ISBN 3-11-015578-8
