Model‐based measuring of syntactic change*
Relja Vulanović · Journal of Quantitative Linguistics · 1995
A new method for quantitative representation of syntactic change is introduced. The method is model‐based in the sense that a formal grammatical model is used to describe stages of syntactic change. Then, by measuring some relevant features of the model, syntactic change is represented as a sequence of numerical values. This can be used for establishing the rate of syntactic change and for further investigations and comparisons of various syntactic changes.