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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136403203321

Autore

Schütze Carson T.

Titolo

The empirical base of linguistics : grammaticality judgments and linguistic methodology / / Carson T. Schütze

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Language Science Press, 2016

Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

3-946234-04-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 244 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Classics in linguistics ; ; 3

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammaticality (Linguistics)

Linguistics - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-228) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

1: Introduction -- 2: Definitions and Historical Background -- 3: Judging Grammaticality -- 4: Subject-Related Factors in Grammaticality Judgments -- 5: Task-Related Factors in Grammaticality Judgments -- 6: Theoretical and Methodological Implications -- 7: Looking Back and Looking Ahead .

Sommario/riassunto

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.