Grammar without grammaticality : growth and limits of grammatical precision / / Geoffrey Sampson, Anna Babarczy

• Autore: Sampson Geoffrey <1944->
• 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 non controllato: Cultural Imperialism; Grammar Acquisition; Grammar; Grammaticality; Syntax
• Classificazione: ET 100
• Altri autori: BabarczyAnna
• 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.: 9910790833703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Trends in linguistics. . -Studies and monographs ; ; 254.