Grammars And Grammaticality
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Grammar Without Grammaticality
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Author : Geoffrey Sampson
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-11-27
Grammar Without Grammaticality written by Geoffrey Sampson and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-27 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Grammars And Grammaticality
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Author : Michael B. Kac
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1992-02-06
Grammars And Grammaticality written by Michael B. Kac and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-02-06 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
At the outset, the goal of generative grammar was the explication of an intuitive concept grammaticality (Chomsky 1957:13). But psychological goals have become primary, referred to as “linguistic competence”, “language faculty”, or, more recently, “I-language”. Kac argues for the validity of the earlier goal of grammaticality and for a specific view of the relationship between the abstract, nonpsychological study of grammar and the investigation of the language faculty. The method of the book involves a formalization of traditional grammar, with emphasis on etiological analysis, that is, providing a “diagnosis” for any ungrammatical string of the type of ungrammaticality involved. Part I justifies this view and makes the logical foundations of etiological analysis explicit. Part II applies the theory to a diverse body of typically generativist data, among which are aspects of the English complement system and some problematic phenomena in coordinate structures. The volume includes pedagogical exercises and especially intriguing is a large analysis problem, originally constructed by Gerlad Sanders using data from Nama Hottentot, which exposes the reader to a syntax of extraordinary beauty.
Grammar And Context
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Author : Ann Hewings
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2005
Grammar And Context written by Ann Hewings and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Grammar and Context: considers how grammatical choices influence and are influenced by the context in which communication takes place examines the interaction of a wide variety of contexts - including socio-cultural, situational and global influences includes a range of different types of grammar - functional, pedagogic, descriptive and prescriptive explores grammatical features in a lively variety of communicative contexts, such as advertising, dinner-table talk, email and political speeches gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: David Crystal, M.A.K. Halliday, Joanna Thornborrow, Ken Hyland and Stephen Levey. The accompanying website to this book can be found at http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415310814/
The Empirical Base Of Linguistics
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Author : Carson T. Schutze
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1996-05-15
The Empirical Base Of Linguistics written by Carson T. Schutze and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-05-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
He then assesses the status of judgments as reliable indicators of a speaker's grammar.
Grammatical Theory
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Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1983-09-15
Grammatical Theory written by Frederick J. Newmeyer and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-09-15 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Newmeyer persuasively defends the controversial theory of transformational generative grammar. Grammatical Theory is for every linguist, philosopher, or psychologist who is skeptical of generative grammar and wants to learn more about it. Newmeyer's formidable scholarship raises the level of debate on transformational generative grammar. He stresses the central importance of an autonomous formal grammar, discusses the limitations of "discourse-based" approaches to syntax, cites support for generativist theory in recent research, and clarifies misunderstood concepts associated with generative grammar.
Syntactic Structures
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Author : Noam Chomsky
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-05-18
Syntactic Structures written by Noam Chomsky and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-18 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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The Cambridge Grammar Of The English Language
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Author : Rodney D. Huddleston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-04
The Cambridge Grammar Of The English Language written by Rodney D. Huddleston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This grammar for the 21st century combines clear grammatical principles with non-technical explanations of all terms and concepts used.
Grammatical Theory
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Author : Stefan Müller
language : en
Publisher: Language Science Press
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Grammatical Theory written by Stefan Müller and has been published by Language Science Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book introduces formal grammar theories that play a role in current linguistic theorizing (Phrase Structure Grammar, Transformational Grammar/Government & Binding, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, Categorial Grammar, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Construction Grammar, Tree Adjoining Grammar). The key assumptions are explained and it is shown how the respective theory treats arguments and adjuncts, the active/passive alternation, local reorderings, verb placement, and fronting of constituents over long distances. The analyses are explained with German as the object language. The second part of the book compares these approaches with respect to their predictions regarding language acquisition and psycholinguistic plausibility. The nativism hypothesis, which assumes that humans posses genetically determined innate language-specific knowledge, is critically examined and alternative models of language acquisition are discussed. The second part then addresses controversial issues of current theory building such as the question of flat or binary branching structures being more appropriate, the question whether constructions should be treated on the phrasal or the lexical level, and the question whether abstract, non-visible entities should play a role in syntactic analyses. It is shown that the analyses suggested in the respective frameworks are often translatable into each other. The book closes with a chapter showing how properties common to all languages or to certain classes of languages can be captured.
The Philosophy Of Grammar
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Author : Otto Jespersen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-10-16
The Philosophy Of Grammar written by Otto Jespersen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-16 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book was first published in 1924.
The Oxford Handbook Of English Grammar
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Author : Bas Aarts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Oxford Handbook Of English Grammar written by Bas Aarts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This handbook provides an authoritative, critical survey of current research and knowledge in the grammar of the English language. The volume's expert contributors explore a range of core topics in English grammar, covering a range of theoretical approaches and including the relationship between 'core' grammar and other areas of language.