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1 online resource (1 online resource (xvii, 341 pages)). |
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Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs TiLSM.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-334) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 'starred sentences'. Corpus data support a different model: individuals develop positive grammatical habits of growing refinement, but nothing is ever ruled out. The contrasting models entail contrasting pictures of human nature; our final chapter shows that grammatical theory is not value-neutral but has an ethical di. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Grammaticality (Linguistics)
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Grammaticality (Linguistics) |
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Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781306205283 |
| ISBN |
3110290014 (electronic book) |
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9783110290011 (electronic book) |
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3110289776 |
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9783110289770 |
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9781306205283 |
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130620528X |
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