Empirical linguistics
Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy "intuitions" about language structure. With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Geoffrey Sampson gives an overview of some of the n...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum
2001.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Open Linguistics. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35533316*spi |
| Sumario: | Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy "intuitions" about language structure. With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Geoffrey Sampson gives an overview of some of the new findings and insights about the nature of language which are emerging from investigations of real-life speech and writing, often (although not always) using computers and electronic language samples ("corpora"). Concrete evidence is brought to bear to resolve long-standing questions such as. |
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| Descripción Física: | viii, 226 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 209-217) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781847144317 9780826448835 9780826457943 |
