Tirvengadum: Linguistic Fingerprints and Literary Fraud

Table 1: Percentage of the Sixty most Frequent Words
in the 8 Novels and the Engwall Corpus

Text

No. of words

Total No. of words
in each novel

Percentage

Clair
16,523

33, 755

48.95

Ticket 27,691 57,915 47.81

Câlin 26,794 53,264 50.3

Vie 34,935 65,095 53.66

Immoraliste 19,256 41,260 46.66

Porte 18,943 39,953 47.41

Étranger 18,247 34,623 52.7

Vipères 27, 964 59,426 47.05

Engwall 229,768 500,000 45.95

Text	No. of words	Total No. of words in each novel	Percentage
*Clair*	16,523	33, 755	48.95
*Ticket*	27,691	57,915	47.81
*Câlin*	26,794	53,264	50.3
*Vie*	34,935	65,095	53.66
*Immoraliste*	19,256	41,260	46.66
*Porte*	18,943	39,953	47.41
*Étranger*	18,247	34,623	52.7
*Vipères*	27, 964	59,426	47.05
Engwall	229,768	500,000	45.95