Frontmatter -- Editors' Foreword -- Contents -- Why does negation of the predicate shorten a clause? -- The co-effect of Menzerath-Altmann law and heavy constituent shift in natural languages -- Does the century matter? Machine learning methods to attribute historical periods in an Italian literary corpus -- Too much of a good thing -- Linguistic laws in Catalan -- Dating and geolocation of medieval and modern Spanish notarial documents using distributed representation -- Cross-modal authorship attribution in Russian texts -- Free or not so free? On stress position in Russian, Slovene, and Ukrainian -- Unpacking lexical intertextuality: Vocabulary shared among texts -- The Menzerath-Altmann law in the syntactic relations of the Chinese language based on Universal Dependencies (UD) -- Statistical tools, automatic taxonomies, and topic modelling in the study of self-promotional mission and vision texts of Polish universities -- Quantitative characteristics of phonological words (stress units) -- Explorative study on the Menzerath- Altmann law regarding style, text length, and distributions of data points -- Quantitative analysis of the authorship problem of "The Tale of Genji" -- Revisiting Zipf's law: A new indicator of lexical diversity -- A time-series analysis of vocabulary in Japanese texts: Non-characteristic words and topic words -- Authors' addresses -- Name index -- Subject index