02900nam 2200637Ia 450 991045115930332120211103115308.01-281-29842-597866112984251-84714-431-4(CKB)1000000000411847(EBL)436881(OCoLC)229359554(SSID)ssj0000146228(PQKBManifestationID)11135083(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000146228(PQKBWorkID)10182299(PQKB)11755591(MiAaPQ)EBC436881(Au-PeEL)EBL436881(CaPaEBR)ebr10224649(CaONFJC)MIL129842(OCoLC)893334513(EXLCZ)99100000000041184720000511d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEmpirical linguistics[electronic resource] /Geoffrey SampsonNew York Continuum20011 online resource (237 p.)Open linguistics seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8264-4883-6 0-8264-5794-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Sources and acknowledgements; 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; References; URL list; IndexLinguistics 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 ""Is there one EOpen linguistics series.LinguisticsMethodologyLanguage and languagesElectronic books.LinguisticsMethodology.Language and languages.410/.1410.1Sampson Geoffrey1944-196224MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451159303321Empirical linguistics2461604UNINA