Download or read book Motifs in Language and Text written by Haitao Liu and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The edited volume Motifs in Language and Text is the first collection of original research in the area of the quantitative analysis of motifs. It hosts a collection of contributions that give insight to linguistic motifs theoretically across different languages, text genres, and structural levels, such as lexical, syntactic, semantic etc., and also to the tentative efforts upon the practical applications of the linguistic motifs. .