ENGLISH

Empirical linguistics

By Geoffrey Sampson

Book information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2001
ISBN
9781847144317, 1847144314
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (4345875 bytes)
Series
Open linguistics series
Pages
237\237
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
600
Time added
2013-05-29 16:00:00

Description

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

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