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The determinist linguist believes that every word a speaker or writer uses has its particular motivation; as a rule, he is disinclined to generalise about the use of different vocabulary items. He even objects against occurrences of the same vocabulary item in different contexts being regarded as sensibly the same thing, and still less does he believe in grouping different vocabulary items according to a formal characteristic, such as occurrence frequency. The deeper his analysis, the more does he tend to regard every word as a law of its own.
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Herdan, G. (1966). Random Partitioning of Vocabulary — Vocabulary Connectivity. In: The Advanced Theory of Language as Choice and Chance. Kommunikation und Kybernetik in Einzeldarstellungen, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88388-0_12
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