ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the philological and linguistical studies from statistical methods. It is pertinent to ask: what can philological and linguistical studies hope to gain from statistical methods? There are two kinds of answers. One concerns the applications, e.g. stylistic and comparative studies, and as a special case of those: determination of authorship. The other concerns the quantitative results as such. It seems that the second kind of answer should be the primary. If we strive to describe a language, or the language of a given text specimen, in as exact way as possible, there is no reason to suppress the quantitative description for the sake of the qualitative. The relative relevance of the results, however, can only be estimated when those results are incorporated in a complete model of description. The chapter gives a complete concordance, also indicating inflexional forms, and a complete frequency word-list of the new Persian text.
