Garcia (2007) investigates the role of function words in authorship attribution, arguing that measures such as Yule’s K and Zipf’s Z—when isolated from content words—provide reliable indicators of lexical richness and functional density for use in PCA‑ and Delta‑based stylometric analyses, illustrated with annotated corpora of the West Saxon Gospels and Apollonius of Tyre.
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