Frontmatter -- Editors' Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Space: Discrimination of Loci in Eugene Onegin by A. S. Pushkin -- Application of the Menzerath-Altmann Law to Contemporary Written Japanese in the Short Story Style -- Menzerath-Altmann Law in Differently Segmented Texts -- A New Universal Code Helps to Distinguish Natural Language from Random Texts -- The Advantages of Quantitative Studies for Dialectology -- Type-token relation for word length motifs in Ukrainian texts -- Gender Identification in Modern Greek Tweets -- Syntactic Complexity in Quantitative Linguistics -- Measuring Proximity Between Source and Target Texts: an Exploratory Study -- Evolutionary Derivation of Laws for Polysemic and Age-Polysemic Distributions of Language Sign Ensembles -- Quantitative Studies in the Corpus of Nko Periodicals -- The Co-occurrence and Order of Valency in Japanese Sentences -- Authorship Attribution Using Political Speeches -- Using Rates of Change as a Diagnostic of Vowel Phonologization -- Diversification in the Noun Inflection of Old English -- Tracing the History of Words -- Grammar Efficiency and the Idealization of Parts-of-speech Systems -- Structural Complexity of Simplified Chinese Characters -- On the Robust Measurement of Inflectional Diversity -- The influence of Word Unit and Sentence Length on the Ratio of Parts of Speech in Japanese Texts -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index of Names -- Authors' Addresses