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Empirical linguistics /
Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy "intuitions" about language structure. With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Geoffrey Sampson gives an overview of some of the n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2001.
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| Colección: | Open linguistics series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy "intuitions" about language structure. With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Geoffrey Sampson gives an overview of some of the new findings and insights about the nature of language which are emerging from investigations of real-life speech and writing, often (although not always) using computers and electronic language samples ("corpora"). Concrete evidence is brought to bear to resolve long-standing questions such as |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847144317 1847144314 0826448836 9780826448835 0826457940 9780826457943 |