Longitudinal detection of dementia through lexical and syntactic changes in writing: a case study of three British novelists1 Introduction The research we describe in this article has two complementary goals. First, we want to determine whether linguistic markers of Alzheimer's disease can be detected in a diachronic analysis of aspects of an individual's writing. Our subjects for this are novelists for whom we have a large, lifelong body of work. Second, with regard to the individual authors who serve as subjects, we
