Includes Bibliographical references, appendix & indexes

1. Editor's forword
2. Persistency of higher oder motifs
3. On motifs and verb valency
4. Chinese word length motif and its evolution
5. Quantitative text classification based on POS-motifs
6. L-motif TTR for authorship identification in Hongloumeng and its translation
7. Length motifs of words in traditional and simplified Chinese scripts
8. Dependency distance motifs in 21 Indo-European languages
9. Word length distribution and text length: two important factors influencing properties of word length motifs
10. Quantitative genre analysis using linguistic motifs
11. The rank-frequency distribution of part-of -speech motif and dependency motif in the deaf larner's compositions
12. Quantitative properties of polysemy motifs in Chinese and English
13. The words and F-motifs in the modern Chinese versions of the gospel of mark
14. Motifs of generalized valencies
15. Index of names
16. Subject index

The edited volume Motifs in Language and Text is the first collection of original research in the area of the quantitative analysis of motifs. It hosts a collection of contributions that give insight to linguistic motifs theoretically across different languages, text genres, and structural levels, such as lexical, syntactic, semantic etc., and also to the tentative efforts upon the practical applications of the linguistic motifs.