
Linguistic Evidence : Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Perspectives.
Title:
Linguistic Evidence : Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Perspectives.
Author:
Kepser, Stephan.
ISBN:
9783110197549
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (592 pages)
Series:
Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ; v.85
Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]
Contents:
Contents -- Evidence in Linguistics -- Gradedness and Consistency in Grammaticality Judgments -- Null Subjects and Verb Placement in Old High German -- Beauty and the Beast: What Running a Broad-Coverage Precision Grammar over the BNC Taught Us about the Grammar - and the Corpus -- Seemingly Indefinite Definites -- Animacy as a Driving Cue in Change and Acquisition in Brazilian Portuguese -- Aspectual Coercion and On-line Processing: The Case of Iteration -- Why Do Children Fail to UnderstandWeak Epistemic Terms? An Experimental Study -- Processing Negative Polarity Items: When Negation Comes Through the Backdoor -- Linguistic Constraints on the Acquisition of Epistemic Modal Verbs -- The Decathlon Model of Empirical Syntax -- Examining the Constraints on the Benefactive Alternation by Using the World Wide Web as a Corpus -- A Quantitative Corpus Study of German Word Order Variation -- Which Statistics Reflect Semantics? Rethinking Synonymy and Word Similarity -- Language Production Errors as Evidence for Language Production Processes - The Frankfurt Corpora -- A Multi-Evidence Study of European and Brazilian Portuguese wh-Questions -- The Relationship between Grammaticality Ratings and Corpus Frequencies: A Case Study into Word Order Variability in the Midfield of German Clauses -- The Emergence of Productive Non-Medical -itis: Corpus Evidence and Qualitative Analysis -- Experimental Data vs. Diachronic Typological Data: Two Types of Evidence for Linguistic Relativity -- Reflexives and Pronouns in Picture Noun Phrases: Using Eye Movements as a Source of Linguistic Evidence -- The Plural is Semantically Unmarked -- Coherence - an Experimental Approach -- Thinking About What We Are Asking Speakers to Do -- A Prosodic Factor for the Decline of Topicalisation in English.
On the Syntax of DP Coordination: Combining Evidence from Reading-Time Studies and Agrammatic Comprehension -- Lexical Statistics and Lexical Processing: Semantic Density, Information Complexity, Sex, and Irregularity in Dutch -- The Double Competence Hypothesis On Diachronic Evidence -- List of Contributors.
Abstract:
The architecture of the human language faculty has been one of the main foci of the linguistic research of the last half century. This branch of linguistics, broadly known as Generative Grammar, is concerned with the formulation of explanatory formal accounts of linguistic phenomena with the ulterior goal of gaining insight into the properties of the 'language organ'. The series comprises high quality monographs and collected volumes that address such issues. The topics in this series range from phonology to semantics, from syntax to information structure, from mathematical linguistics to studies of the lexicon.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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