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<p>The text presents a theoretical platform and a case study of a new method for authorship attribution based on an author’s specific low-frequency lexicon. It will be shown that an author’s text is largely context-independent and is constructed by the author’s habit based on the regular repetition of certain topics or modes of expression. The author’s idiosyncratic way of choosing between synonymous linguistic devices in the text happens at a distance of several word forms or sentence units. This means that texts themselves are constructed using a much wider range of repetitions than expected and that the structure of the text above the level of intersentential linking is determined by a specific group of words (functional but above all content words) obligatorily used by the author in the formulation of the text. The newly introduced method can be used to attribute authorship by relying on the specific linguistic imprint of the author in the text (in this context, we talk about parasyntactic linguistic level). The method is compared with a function-word-based method.</p>
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The text presents a theoretical platform and a case study of a new method for authorship attribution based on an author’s specific low-frequency lexicon. It will be shown that an author’s text is largely context-independent and is constructed by the author’s habit based on the regular repetition of certain topics or modes of expression. The author’s idiosyncratic way of choosing between synonymous linguistic devices in the text happens at a distance of several word forms or sentence units. This means that texts themselves are constructed using a much wider range of repetitions than expected and that the structure of the text above the level of intersentential linking is determined by a specific group of words (functional but above all content words) obligatorily used by the author in the formulation of the text. The newly introduced method can be used to attribute authorship by relying on the specific linguistic imprint of the author in the text (in this context, we talk about parasyntactic linguistic level). The method is compared with a function-word-based method.

I repeat therefore I am: The parasyntactic perspective

Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Palackého

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The text presents a theoretical platform and a case study of a new method for authorship attribution based on an author’s specific low-frequency lexicon. It...

I repeat therefore I am: The parasyntactic perspective

Published Online: Feb 02, 2024

Page range: 477 - 494

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2024-0005

Keywords
low-frequency lexicon, hapax legomenon, text structure, text cohesion, personal content profile, authorship attribution, forensic standard, parasyntax

© 2024 Martina Benešová et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

I repeat therefore I am: The parasyntactic perspective

Published Online: Feb 02, 2024

Page range: 477 - 494

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2024-0005

Keywordslow-frequency lexicon, hapax legomenon, text structure, text cohesion, personal content profile, authorship attribution, forensic standard, parasyntax

© 2024 Martina Benešová et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
low-frequency lexicon, hapax legomenon, text structure, text cohesion, personal content profile, authorship attribution, forensic standard, parasyntax