[Corpora-List] max sentence legnths

Daniel Riaño danielriano at telefonica.net
Sat Jun 28 13:12:32 UTC 2008


A good English translation of "The Autumn of the Patriarch" should 
beat that one by far.


>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 
><<mailto:scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk>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: <mailto:scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk>scott.piao at manchester.ac.uk
>
>
>
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