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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Main Author: Sampson, Geoffrey
Other Authors: Babarczy, Anna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]
Series:Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 254.
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