[Corpora-List] max sentence legnths

[John F. Sowa]

There seem to be two major ways of breaking exceptionally long
sentences into reasonable chunks:

  1. Punctuate a stream of consciousness at likely breath points,
     usually at the end of an embedded sentence or NP.

  2. Look for many repetitions of sentences or NPs with a similar
     syntactic pattern at the beginning of each.

For example, Yorick's example from the King James Bible begins

    "Yet for all that, the learned know that"

Then the remainder of the sentence up to the last two segments
can be represented

    (";" "and" [Adv ","] "that" S)*

Do any of those exceptionally long sentences use more varied
constructions that could not be subdivided by these two methods?

John Sowa






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