Grammar Without Grammaticality Growth and Limits of Grammatical Precision

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sampson, Geoffrey, 1944-, aut (Autor)
Otros Autores: Babarczy, Anna, ed. lit (ed lit)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter Mouton [2013].
Colección:Plataforma De Gruyter ebook.
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 254.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34259624*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.