Linguistics: Chronology of Plato’s works

Autor: Pieter M. Kroonenberg
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Multivariate Humanities ISBN: 9783030691493
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-69150-9_15
Popis: Main Topic. In Greek and Latin, sentence endings often carry a special meaning, especially through their rhythm. It has been said that changing the use of specific sentence endings over time can be used to put an author’s work in chronological order. Data. Plato’s sentence endings in 45 of his texts collected by Kaluscha in 1904. Research questions. Is it possible to use the rhythm of sentence endings for the seriation of Plato’s works? Statistical techniques. Ordinal principal component analysis, correspondence analysis.
Databáze: OpenAIRE