<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In this article, we deal with the similarity between epigenetic marks in DNA and hapax legomena in language; based on the so-called hapaxes, a grammar description is designed. We reflect hapax analysis of Czech language provided by Novotná (2013) and avoid random selection of the corpus. For this reason, we analyze a corpus of 12 authentic books from 12 authors who elaborated the theme “What’s new in…” concerning their field of science, assigned by Nová beseda publishing. By analyzing a middle-sized corpus, we expected results similar to those of large-scale national corpus (see Novotná 2013). We chose to classify hapaxes into different categories in comparison to Novotná, yet the results show similar language productive categories. This kind of language potentiality seems to be analogical to epigenetic processes in biology, which is briefly introduced.</p></abstract>

In this article, we deal with the similarity between epigenetic marks in DNA and hapax legomena in language; based on the so-called hapaxes, a grammar description is designed. We reflect hapax analysis of Czech language provided by Novotná (2013) and avoid random selection of the corpus. For this reason, we analyze a corpus of 12 authentic books from 12 authors who elaborated the theme “What’s new in…” concerning their field of science, assigned by Nová beseda publishing. By analyzing a middle-sized corpus, we expected results similar to those of large-scale national corpus (see Novotná 2013). We chose to classify hapaxes into different categories in comparison to Novotná, yet the results show similar language productive categories. This kind of language potentiality seems to be analogical to epigenetic processes in biology, which is briefly introduced.

Once again about the hapax grammar: Epigenetic Linguistics

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In this article, we deal with the similarity between epigenetic marks in DNA and hapax legomena in language; based on the so-called hapaxes, a grammar...

Once again about the hapax grammar: Epigenetic Linguistics

Published Online: Jul 24, 2020

Page range: 23 - 27

Received: Jun 01, 2019

Accepted: Jan 01, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2019-0002

Keywords
norm, epigenetics, linguistics, hapax legomena, corpus

© 2020 Dan Faltýnek et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Once again about the hapax grammar: Epigenetic Linguistics

Published Online: Jul 24, 2020

Page range: 23 - 27

Received: Jun 01, 2019

Accepted: Jan 01, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2019-0002

Keywordsnorm, epigenetics, linguistics, hapax legomena, corpus

© 2020 Dan Faltýnek et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
norm, epigenetics, linguistics, hapax legomena, corpus