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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. From central embedding to empirical linguistics
- 3. Many Englishes or one English?
- 4. Depth in English grammar
- 5. Demographic correlates of complexity in British speech
- 6. The role of taxonomy
- 7. Good-Turing frequency estimation without tears
- 8. Objective evidence is all we need
- 9. What was Transformational Grammar?
- 10. Evidence against the grammatical/ungrammatical distinction
- 11. Meaning and the limits of science.