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Quantitative Approaches To Grammar And Grammatical Change: Perspectives From Germanic (trends In Linguistics. Studies And Monographs) (trends In Linguistics. Studies And Monographs [tilsm])
by Sam Featherston /
2016 / English / PDF, EPUB
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The newly-emerging field of theoretically informed but
simultaneously empirically based syntax is dynamic but
little-represented in the literature. This volume addresses this
need.
The newly-emerging field of theoretically informed but
simultaneously empirically based syntax is dynamic but
little-represented in the literature. This volume addresses this
need.
While there has previously been something of a gulf between
theoretical linguists in the generative tradition and those
linguists who work with quantitative data types, this gap is
narrowing. In the light of the empirical revolution in the study
of syntax, even people whose primary concern is grammatical
theory take note of processing effects and attribute certain
effects to them. Correspondingly, workers focusing on the surface
evidence can relate more to the concepts of the theoreticians,
because the two layers of explanation have been brought into
contact. And these workers too must account for the data gathered
by the theoreticians. An additional innovation is the generative
analysis of historical data – this is now seen as
psycholinguistic theory-relevant data like any other.
While there has previously been something of a gulf between
theoretical linguists in the generative tradition and those
linguists who work with quantitative data types, this gap is
narrowing. In the light of the empirical revolution in the study
of syntax, even people whose primary concern is grammatical
theory take note of processing effects and attribute certain
effects to them. Correspondingly, workers focusing on the surface
evidence can relate more to the concepts of the theoreticians,
because the two layers of explanation have been brought into
contact. And these workers too must account for the data gathered
by the theoreticians. An additional innovation is the generative
analysis of historical data – this is now seen as
psycholinguistic theory-relevant data like any other.
These papers are thus a snapshot of some of the work currently
being done in evidence-based grammar, using both experimental and
historical data.
These papers are thus a snapshot of some of the work currently
being done in evidence-based grammar, using both experimental and
historical data.
