Unified modeling of diversification in language

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In this book we try to perform a simplification concerning classes of linguistic objects. We have collected some of the available published literature ? it is enormous ? and let the reader continue fitting the simple function we propose. The approach does not mean that all the enedeavours by Zipf, Mandelbrot, etc. are not correct. On the contrary, we merely bring to them a simple differential equation which is easier to interpret than the more complex ones, but all of them belong to the same unified theory. Neither does it mean that we have discovered more truth. Truth is not concealed behind formulae. They merely help us to capture the reality and to draw mechanically consequences using the rules of mathematics. But none of our models is part of the reality.