Empirical linguistics / Geoffrey Sampson.

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Sampson, Geoffrey

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Open linguistics seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 226 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781847144317
1847144314
0826448836
9780826448835
0826457940
9780826457943

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Empirical linguistics.DDC classification:

410/.1 22

LOC classification:

P126 .S24 2001eb

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Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. From central embedding to empirical linguistics -- 3. Many Englishes or one English? -- 4. Depth in English grammar -- 5. Demographic correlates of complexity in British speech -- 6. The role of taxonomy -- 7. Good-Turing frequency estimation without tears -- 8. Objective evidence is all we need -- 9. What was Transformational Grammar? -- 10. Evidence against the grammatical/ungrammatical distinction -- 11. Meaning and the limits of science.

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index.

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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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