The empirical base of linguistics: Grammaticality judgments and linguistic methodology

Throughout much of the history of linguistics, grammaticality judgments - intuitions about the well-formedness of sentences - have constituted most of the empirical base against which theoretical hypothesis have been tested. Although such judgments often rest on subtle intuitions, there is no system...

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Huvudskapare: T. Schütze, Carson (auth)
Materialtyp: Elektronisk Bokavsnitt
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Language Science Press 2016
Serie:Classics in Linguistics 3
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Sammanfattning:Throughout much of the history of linguistics, grammaticality judgments - intuitions about the well-formedness of sentences - have constituted most of the empirical base against which theoretical hypothesis have been tested. Although such judgments often rest on subtle intuitions, there is no systematic methodology for eliciting them, and their apparent instability and unreliability have led many to conclude that they should be abandoned as a source of data.
Fysisk beskrivning:1 electronic resource (244 p.)
ISBN:OAPEN_603356
9783946234043
Tillgång:Open Access