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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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Pubblicazione: | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014] |
©2014 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
Disciplina: | 415 |
Soggetto topico: | Grammaticality (Linguistics) |
Grammar, Comparative and general | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
BabarczyAnna
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 nothing is ever ruled out. The contrasting models entail contrasting pictures of human nature; our final chapter shows that grammatical theory is not value-neutral but has an ethical dimension. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Grammar without grammaticality ![]() |
ISBN: | 3-11-048806-X |
3-11-029001-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910453786203321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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