Empirical linguistics / Geoffrey Sampson.
Material type: TextSeries: Open linguistics seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781847144317
- 1847144314
- 0826448836
- 9780826448835
- 0826457940
- 9780826457943
- 410/.1 22
- P126 .S24 2001eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index.
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.
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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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