A Quantitative Approach to the Style of Jonathan Swift

Addison adjectives adverbs Alvar Ellegård authorship average Boder's cent Class 01 Column common comparison computed considered consistency coordinating conjunctions criteria different patterns doublets Edward Gibbon English evidence EXAM Examiner example figures finite verbs formal frequent patterns Function Words gerunds Gibbon grammatical GULL Gulliver Gulliver's Travels History Ibid individual Johnson Jonathan Swift Junius language less Letter linguistic literary Macaulay means method Modest Proposal nominal nouns number of different number of words peculiarities percentage pleonasm possible prepositional phrase probably procedure Profile pronouns prose quantitative random range Rasselas rhetorical Sample 25 samples of Swift seems sentence sequence seriation shows SSS values Stability Factor standard deviation statistical structure stylistic sub-samples Swift and controls Swift samples Swift's style syntactical Table Tale Tatler tences tendency three-word patterns tion total number unknowns verbal vocabulary whole samples word-class frequency distributions word-groups writer