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Title
Empirical linguistics / Geoffrey Sampson.
Author
ISBN
9781847144317 (electronic bk.)
1847144314 (electronic bk.)
0826448836 (hardback)
9780826448835 (hardback)
0826457940 (pbk.)
9780826457943 (pbk.)
1847144314 (electronic bk.)
0826448836 (hardback)
9780826448835 (hardback)
0826457940 (pbk.)
9780826457943 (pbk.)
Imprint
London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
P126 .S24 2001eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)229359554
Summary
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
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
Source of Description
Print version record.
Series
Open linguistics series.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Sampson, Geoffrey. Empirical linguistics. London ; New York : Continuum, 2001
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