TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sampson,Geoffrey
TI  - Empirical linguistics
T2  - Open linguistics series
SN  - 9781847144317
AV  - P126 .S24 2001eb
U1  - 410/.1 22
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Continuum
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Linguistique
KW  - Méthodologie
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Language
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Taalwetenschap
KW  - gtt
KW  - Empirische methoden
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-217) and index; 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
N2  - 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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