UID:
almahu_9949481527902882
Format:
1 online resource (341 p.)
ISBN:
9783110290011
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9783110238570
Series Statement:
Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 254
Content:
Linguists have standardly assumed that grammar is about identifying all and only the 'good' sentences of a language, which implies that there must be other, 'bad' sentences - but in practice most linguists know that it is hard to pin those down. The standard assumption is no more than an assumption. A century ago, grammarians did not think about their subject that way, and our book shows that the older idea was right: linguists can and should dispense with the concept 'starred sentence'. We draw on corpus data in order to support a different model of grammar, in which individuals refine positive grammatical habits to greater or lesser extents in diverse and unpredictable directions, but nothing is ever ruled out. Languages are not merely alternative methods of verbalizing universal logical forms. We use empirical evidence to shed light on the routes by which school-age children gradually expand their battery of grammatical resources, which turn out to be sometimes counter-intuitive. Our rejection of the 'starred sentence' concept has attracted considerable discussion, and we summarize the reactions and respond to our critics. The contrasting models of grammar described in this book entail contrasting pictures of human nature; our closing 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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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
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DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1, De Gruyter, 9783110238570
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DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110636970
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De Gruyter Mouton Backlist 2000-2015, De Gruyter, 9783110742961
In:
E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013, De Gruyter, 9783110317350
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E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 2013, De Gruyter, 9783110317244
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110289770
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9783110290011
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110290011
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110290011
