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

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 410
• Soggetto topico: Linguistic analysis (Linguistics); Linguistics - Research - Methodology; Corpora (Linguistics); Computational linguistics
• Classificazione: ER 760
• Altri autori: FeatherstonSam SternefeldWolfgang <1953->
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Roots
• ISBN: 1-282-19450-X; 9786612194504; 3-11-019862-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782775403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in generative grammar ; ; 96.