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Grammar without grammaticality : growth and limits of grammatical precision / Geoffrey Sampson, Anna Babarczy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sampson, Geoffrey, 1944-
- Series:
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 254.
- Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, 1861-4302 ; volume 254
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammaticality (Linguistics).
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783110488067
- 311048806X
- 9783110290011
- 3110290014
- OCLC:
- 870892272
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