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edocfu_9958354058602883
Format:
1 online resource(xvii,341p.) :
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illustrations.
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Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter Mouton. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783110290011
Series Statement:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]; 254
Content:
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 'starred sentences'. Corpus data support a different model: individuals develop positive grammatical habits of growing refinement, but nothing is ever ruled out. The contrasting models entail contrasting pictures of human nature; our final chapter shows that grammatical theory is not value-neutral but has an ethical dimension.
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Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Acknowledgements --
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Table of contents --
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List of figures --
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List of tables --
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Chapter 1. Introduction --
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Chapter 2. The bounds of grammatical refinement --
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Chapter 3. Where should annotation stop? --
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Chapter 40. Grammar without grammaticality --
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Chapter 5. Replies to our critics --
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Chapter 6. Grammatical description meets spontaneous speech --
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Chapter 7. Demographic correlates of speech complexity --
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Chapter 8. The structure of children’s writing --
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Chapter 9. Child writing and discourse organization --
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Chapter 10. Simple grammars and new grammars --
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Chapter 11. The case of the vanishing perfect --
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Chapter 12. Testing a metric for parse accuracy --
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Chapter 13. Linguistics empirical and unempirical --
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Chapter 14. William Gladstone as linguist --
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Chapter 15. Minds in Uniform: How generative linguistics regiments culture, and why it shouldn’t --
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References --
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Index.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110289770
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110290028
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110290011
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110290011
