The journal SMIL – Statistical Methods in Linguistics (1962–1976) – some notes about the history of quantitative linguistics in Scandinavia and beyond

This article deals with the history of quantitative linguistics. The focus of this paper is the journal SMIL – Statistical Methods in Linguistics, which was published by Hans Karlgren in Stockholm from 1962 to 1976 (with a short interruption between 1966 and 1969). SMIL is a representative example of the process of differentiation in quantitative linguistics during the seventies and can be seen as one early major “Scandinavian” contribution to statistical and quantitative linguistics.