A Quantitative Perspective on Stylistics - Syntactic Variation in Contemporary Written Czech

This book explores the syntactic variation across various styles and genres in contemporary written Czech using quantitative methods. The research is based on the large, balanced corpus, SYN2020, which is part of the Czech National Corpus. The aim is to demonstrate the potential of corpus-based quantitative analysis as a complement to the qualitative methods that have traditionally dominated research in stylistics. Although the empirical focus is on Czech, the methodologies presented are intended to serve as a model for quantitative syntactic stylistics in other languages as well.

About the author

Miroslav Kubát und Xinying Chen, University of Ostrava, Czechia.

Summary

This book explores the syntactic variation across various styles and genres in contemporary written Czech using quantitative methods. The research is based on the large, balanced corpus, SYN2020, which is part of the Czech National Corpus. The aim is to demonstrate the potential of corpus-based quantitative analysis as a complement to the qualitative methods that have traditionally dominated research in stylistics. Although the empirical focus is on Czech, the methodologies presented are intended to serve as a model for quantitative syntactic stylistics in other languages as well.

Product details

• Authors: Xinying Chen, Miroslav Kubát
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 18.12.2025
• EAN: 9783111648156
• ISBN: 978-3-11-164815-6
• No. of pages: 150
• Illustrations: 44 b/w ill., 8 b/w tbl.
• Series: Quantitative Linguistics [QL]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Syntax, Tschechisch, Grammatik, Syntax und Morphologie, Semantik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik, Korpuslinguistik, Linguistics, Slavische Sprachen, Corpus Linguistics, Stilometrie, LAN009060 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Quantitative Linguistik, Quantitative Linguistics, FOR024000 FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Slavic Languages (Other), Genre Analysis, Genre-Analyse, Czech Language, Stylometry