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Grammar Without Grammaticality : Growth and Limits of Grammatical Precision.

Grammar is said to be about defining all and only the 'good' sentences of a language, implying that there are other, 'bad' sentences - but it is hard to pin those down. A century ago, grammarians did not think that way, and they were right: linguists can and should dispense with...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sampson, Geoffrey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013], ©2013.
Colección:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The bounds of grammatical refinement; Chapter 3. Where should annotation stop?; Chapter 4. Grammar without grammaticality; Chapter 5. Replies to our critics; Chapter 6. Grammatical description meets spontaneous speech; Chapter 7. Demographic correlates of speech complexity; Chapter 8. The structure of children's writing; Chapter 9. Child writing and discourse organization; Chapter 10. Simple grammars and new grammars; Chapter 11. The case of the vanishing perfect.
  • Chapter 12. Testing a metric for parse accuracyChapter 13. Linguistics empirical and unempirical; Chapter 14. William Gladstone as linguist; Chapter 15. Minds in Uniform: How generative linguistics regiments culture, and why it shouldn't; References; Index.