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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454062503321

Titolo

Roots [[electronic resource] ] : linguistics in search of its evidential base / / edited by Sam Featherston, Wolfgang Sternefeld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007

ISBN

1-282-19450-X

9786612194504

3-11-019862-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Collana

Studies in generative grammar ; ; 96

Classificazione

ER 760

Altri autori (Persone)

FeatherstonSam

SternefeldWolfgang <1953->

Disciplina

410

Soggetti

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)

Linguistics - Research - Methodology

Corpora (Linguistics)

Computational linguistics

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Portuguese: corpora, coordination and agreement / Doug Arnold, Louisa Sadler and Aline Villavicencio -- Contributing to the extraction/parenthesis debate / Katrin Axel and Tanja Kiziak -- Quantifying quantifier scope / Oliver Bott and Janina Radó -- Is syntactic knowledge probabilistic? / Joan Bresnan -- Psycholinguistic perspectives on grammatical representations / Harald Clahsen -- Early language separation / Elena Dieser -- I need data which I can rely on / Thomas Hoffman -- Locality and accessibility in WH-questions / Philip Hofmeister ... [et al.] -- Eye tracking as a tool to investigate the comprehension of referential expressions / Anke Karabanov, Peter Bosch, and Peter König -- Corpus data and experimental results as prosodic evidence / Denisa Lenertová and Stefan Sudhoff -- The retrieval and classification of negative polarity items using statistical profiles / Timm Lichte and Jan-Philipp Soehn -- Geographic distributions of linguistic variation reflect dynamics of differentiation / John Nerbonne and Wilbert Heeringa -- Focus and verb order in early



new high german / Christopher D. Sapp -- Contrastive topics in pairing answers / Stavros Skopeteas and Caroline Féry -- Coordinate structures / Ilona Steiner -- Adverbs and sentence topics in processing English / Britta Stolterfoht, Lyn Frazier, and Charles Clifton, Jr.

Sommario/riassunto

The renewed focus on the evidential base of linguistics in general, but particularly on syntax, is in to a large degree dependent on technological developments: computers, electronic storage and transmission. These factors have enabled a revolution in the accessibility of digitally stored language, both in sampled and organized corpora and in its raw unsampled form on the internet. But this technology has also allowed a step-change in experimental methods readily available to linguists. The new arrival of such enormous quantities of data in greatly increased detail has made information accessi