Typological Profiling of English, Spanish, German and Slovak: A Corpus-Based Approach

Abstract Inspired by earlier work on typological profiling of English Benedikt Szmrecsányi and Bernd Kortmann ([1], [2], [3]), this paper investigates the profiles English, Spanish, German, Slovak, applying Kortmann’s methodology calculating a SYNTHETICITY INDEX an ANALYTICITY based 1,000-word corpus samples. The results show that is replicable, confirm claims in literature about degrees analyticity syntheticity these languages. Instead simple analytic-synthetic continuum, “typological space” [3] used to visualize results, showing languages can be both synthetic analytic varying degrees.