Language Sciences 26(1), pp. 1-25.
ISSN/ISBN: 0388-0001 DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(03)00018-4
Abstract: During the first half of this century, George Kingsley Zipf devised a comprehensive model of language mainly on the empirical basis of frequency counts in discourse. Although Zipf is remembered particularly for establishing the general formula “the higher the discourse frequency of a linguistic item, the shorter it will be”, his model is complex enough to merit re-evaluation especially in the light of more recent findings of discourse-based models of language and grammaticalization theory.
Bibtex:
@article{,
title={Zipf and his heirs},
author={Pustet, Regina},
journal={Language Sciences},
volume={26},
number={1},
pages={1--25},
year={2004},
publisher={Elsevier},
ISSN={0388-0001},
DOI={10.1016/S0388-0001(03)00018-4},
}
Reference Type: Journal Article
Subject Area(s): General Interest