[Corpora-List] max sentence legnths

[Ylva Berglund Prytz]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_English_sentence

Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote:
> Probably not quite English, but resolutions of the General Assembly of 
> the United Nations are each a single sentence by design. Given that they 
> run into multiple pages, they can get pretty long. Even if you say a 
> paragraphs is instead the unit of speech, it can still run into more 
> than 100 words.
> 
> Regards,
>    Alex.
> Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/
> Research group: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/Research/
> 
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:40 AM, 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
> 
> 
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