[Corpora-List] max sentence legnths

[Adam Kilgarriff]

seeing it's Friday afternoon - my favourite longest sentence came from Vicki
Fromkin on the Linguist list (I hope she doesn't mind) -


Becoming a linguist --  I am sure there are as many reasons as there
are linguists or more.  Me?  17 years after my BA, tired of being
a diletant and having felt betrayed by the revolution and also guilty about
giving the president of my son's PTA a headache every time I raised my
hand (or so it was reported to me) I decided I really wanted to go back
to school but didn't want to do more economics (my BA) and one evening
at dinner in San Francisco at a friends where I met Harvey Pitkin who
was working on Wintu (and his PhD at Berkeley) I moaned that I didn't
know what I wanted to be when I grew up and he said You should be a linguist
and I said I couldn't even speak English and he said that doesn't matter
if I liked to do cross word puzzles and made up secret languages when I wa
was a little girl and then he talked about phonemes and morphemes and
American Indian languages and we finished a bottle of Brandy and I
decided, why not? so I applied to the Linguistic Dept at ucla and was
sure they would reject me not knowing any linguistics and having only
A's and F's on my undergraduate transcript and low and behold they said yes
which I am sure was a mistake but that was 1961 and in 1962 I entered th
graduate program and in 1965 got a PhD and will be eternally grateful to
Harvey and brandy and ucla and all this is to show how there is no longest
sentence.  Vicki Fromkin


(found at
http://www.umich.edu/~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.3/no.401-450)

have good weekend

adam



 ...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> 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
>>
>>
>>
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