@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/bjl.23.13mel, author = "Mellet, Sylvie and Longrée, Dominique", title = "Syntactical Motifs and Textual Structures: Considerations based on the Study of a Latin historical Corpus", journal= "Belgian Journal of Linguistics", year = "2009", volume = "23", number = "1", pages = "161-174", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.23.13mel", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/bjl.23.13mel", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "0774-5141", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "classification", keywords = "network-likeness", keywords = "lexico-grammatical patterns", keywords = "motifs", keywords = "Latin historians", abstract = "Abstract: A method initially developed to carry out automatic comparisons and classifications of Latin historians texts shows that some well-ordered and characteristic structures, – some syntactical motifs in particular –, can perfectly distinguish a text from the others texts making up the corpus. This paper will establish on which factors the relevance of such a reduction method can be grounded in order to give an account of affinities and distances between texts: recurrence of the chosen motifs, exhaustiveness of the counting, respect of the text linearity both on the local level and on the global level. This will lead to a reflection on the notions of texture and textuality, understood through the properties of linearity and reticularity.", }