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Autore |
Sampson Geoffrey <1944-> |
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Titolo |
Grammar without grammaticality : growth and limits of grammatical precision / / Geoffrey Sampson, Anna Babarczy |
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Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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3-11-048806-X |
3-11-029001-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Collana |
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, , 1861-4302 ; ; volume 254 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Grammaticality (Linguistics) |
Grammar, Comparative and general |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- 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 40. 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 -- Chapter 12. Testing a metric for parse accuracy -- Chapter 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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