[Corpora-List] max sentence legnths

[Alex Boulton]

...and a sentence in Joyce's Ulysses that's over 30 pages long! But 
that's stream of consciousness, as people tend not to think in sentences...
alex

Anil Singh a écrit :
> I had come across one sentence in the English translation of One 
> Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez that was at least 
> one and a half pages long.
>
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:10 PM, Scott Songlin Piao 
> <scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk <mailto:scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Does anyone have the information about the maximum English
>     sentence lengths in the main genres, such as news reports,
>     academic writings, speeches etc, ideally with publication references?
>
>     With best regards
>
>     Scott Piao
>
>     School of Computer Science
>     The University of Manchester
>     Manchester, UK
>
>     Email: scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk
>     <mailto:scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk>
>
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