stylo.pronouns {stylo}

List of pronouns

Description

This function returns a list of pronouns that can be used as a stop word list for different stylometric analyses. It has been shown that pronoun deletion improves, to some extent, attribution accuracy of stylometric procedures (e.g. in English novels: Hoover 2004a; 2004b).

Usage

stylo.pronouns(corpus.lang = "English")

Arguments

corpus.lang

an optional argument specifying the language of the texts analyzed: available languages are English, Latin, Polish, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Hungarian (default is English).

Value

The function returns a vector of pronouns.

Author(s)

Jan Rybicki, Maciej Eder, Mike Kestemont

References

Hoover, D. (2004a). Testing Burrows's delta. "Literary and Linguistic Computing", 19(4): 453-75.

Hoover, D. (2004b). Delta prime?. "Literary and Linguistic Computing", 19(4): 477-95.

See Also

stylo

Examples

stylo.pronouns()
stylo.pronouns(corpus.lang = "Latin")
my.stop.words = stylo.pronouns(corpus.lang = "German")