Linguistic evidence [[electronic resource] ] : empirical, theoretical, and computational perspectives / / edited by Stefan Kepser, Marga Reis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451940403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2005
• ISBN: 1-283-39655-6; 9786613396556; 3-11-019754-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (592 p.)
• Collana: Studies in generative grammar ; ; 85
• Altri autori (Persone): KepserStephan <1967->; ReisMarga
• Disciplina: 410.72
• Soggetti: Linguistics - Methodology; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Evidence in Linguistics -- Gradedness and Consistency in Grammaticality Judgments -- Null Subjects and Verb Placement in Old High German -- Beauty and the Beast: What Running a Broad-Coverage Precision Grammar over the BNC Taught Us about the Grammar - and the Corpus -- Seemingly Indefinite Definites -- Animacy as a Driving Cue in Change and Acquisition in Brazilian Portuguese -- Aspectual Coercion and On-line Processing: The Case of Iteration -- Why Do Children Fail to Understand Weak Epistemic Terms? An Experimental Study -- Processing Negative Polarity Items: When Negation Comes Through the Backdoor -- Linguistic Constraints on the Acquisition of Epistemic Modal Verbs -- The Decathlon Model of Empirical Syntax -- Examining the Constraints on the Benefactive Alternation by Using the World Wide Web as a Corpus -- A Quantitative Corpus Study of German Word Order Variation -- Which Statistics Reflect Semantics? Rethinking Synonymy and Word Similarity -- Language Production Errors as Evidence for Language Production Processes - The Frankfurt Corpora -- A Multi-Evidence Study of European and Brazilian Portuguese wh-Questions -- The Relationship between Grammaticality Ratings and Corpus Frequencies: A Case Study ; into Word Order Variability in the Midfield of German Clauses -- The Emergence of Productive Non-Medical -itis: Corpus Evidence and Qualitative Analysis -- Experimental Data vs. Diachronic Typological Data: Two Types of Evidence for Linguistic Relativity -- Reflexives and Pronouns in Picture Noun Phrases: Using Eye Movements as a Source of Linguistic Evidence -- The Plural is Semantically Unmarked -- Coherence - an Experimental Approach -- Thinking About What We Are Asking Speakers to Do -- A Prosodic Factor for the Decline of Topicalisation in English -- On the Syntax of DP Coordination: Combining Evidence from Reading-Time Studies and Agrammatic Comprehension -- Lexical Statistics and Lexical Processing: Semantic Density, Information Complexity, Sex, and Irregularity in Dutch -- The Double Competence Hypothesis On Diachronic Evidence -- Back matter
• Sommario/riassunto: The renaissance of corpus linguistics and promising developments in experimental linguistic techniques in recent years have led to a remarkable revival of interest in issues of the empirical base of linguistic theory in general, and the status of different kinds of linguistic evidence in particular. Consensus is growing (a) that even so-called primary data (from introspection as well as authentic language production) are inherently complex performance data only indirectly reflecting the subject of linguistic theory, (b) that for an appropriate foundation of linguistic theories evidence from different sources such as introspective data, corpus data, data from (psycho-)linguistic experiments, historical and diachronic data, typological data, neurolinguistic data and language learning data are not only welcome but also often necessary. It is in particular by contrasting evidence from different sources with respect to particular research questions that we may gain a deeper understanding of the status and quality of the individual types of linguistic evidence on the one hand, and of their mutual relationship and respective weight on the other. The present volume is a collection of (selected) papers presented at the conference on 'Linguistic Evidence' in Tübingen 2004, which was explicitly devoted to the above issues. All of them address these issues in relation to specific linguistic research problems, thereby helping to establish a better understanding of the nature of linguistic evidence in particularly insightful ways.