Grammar without grammaticality : growth and limits of grammatical precision /

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...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Sampson, Geoffrey
مؤلفون آخرون: Babarczy, Anna
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]
سلاسل:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 254.
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الملخص: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.
وصف مادي:1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations.
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ردمك:9783110290011 (e-book)
تدمد:1861-4302 ;