Towards a Methodology for Investigating the Style of a Literary ...

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11. Any direct comparison of the type/token ratio of texts in different languages, especially
languages as structurally diverse as English and Arabic, would clearly be meaningless,
for obvious reasons. Zanettin (2000) proposes an ingenious method for overcoming this
difficulty, but applying it requires access to large reference corpora of original texts in
both languages.
12. English and Arabic have very different conventions of punctuation, and it is not uncommon
for a whole paragraph in Arabic to consist of one long ‘sentence’, if we follow the
traditional definition of a sentence as ending in a full stop, question mark, or exclamation
mark. Even more problematic in the present context is the fact that it is very difficult and
costly at the moment to scan and analyze Arabic texts automatically, for a variety of
technical reasons, which means that no corpus-based exploration of the Arabic originals
can be undertaken, and a manual analysis would require a considerable amount of time to
perform.
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