Roots : linguistics in search of its evidential base / edited by Sam Featherston, Wolfgang Sternefeld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Featherston, Sam.

Sternefeld, Wolfgang, 1953-

Series:

Studies in generative grammar ; 96.

Studies in generative grammar ; 96

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistic analysis (Linguistics).

Linguistics--Research--Methodology.

Linguistics.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Computational linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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 Rado

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 Konig

Corpus data and experimental results as prosodic evidence / Denisa Lenertova 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 Fery

Coordinate structures / Ilona Steiner

Adverbs and sentence topics in processing English / Britta Stolterfoht, Lyn Frazier, and Charles Clifton, Jr.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612194504

9781282194502

128219450X

9783110198621

3110198622

OCLC:

476197301