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Author : William Labov
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Empirical Foundations of Linguistic Theory written by William Labov and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Uriel Weinreich
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Empirical Foundations for a Theory of Language Change written by Uriel Weinreich and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Harris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Foundations of Linguistic Theory written by Roy Harris and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carson T. Schütze
Publisher : Language Science Press
ISBN 13 : 394623402X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (462 download)
Download or read book The empirical base of linguistics written by Carson T. Schütze and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout much of the history of linguistics, grammaticality judgments - intuitions about the well-formedness of sentences - have constituted most of the empirical base against which theoretical hypothesis have been tested. Although such judgments often rest on subtle intuitions, there is no systematic methodology for eliciting them, and their apparent instability and unreliability have led many to conclude that they should be abandoned as a source of data. Carson T. Schütze presents here a detailed critical overview of the vast literature on the nature and utility of grammaticality judgments and other linguistic intuitions, and the ways they have been used in linguistic research. He shows how variation in the judgment process can arise from factors such as biological, cognitive, and social differences among subjects, the particular elicitation method used, and extraneous features of the materials being judged. He then assesses the status of judgments as reliable indicators of a speaker's grammar. Integrating substantive and methodological findings, Schütze proposes a model in which grammaticality judgments result from interaction of linguistic competence with general cognitive processes. He argues that this model provides the underpinning for empirical arguments to show that once extragrammatical variance is factored out, universal grammar succumbs to a simpler, more elegant analysis than judgment data initially lead us to expect. Finally, Schütze offers numerous practical suggestions on how to collect better and more useful data. The result is a work of vital importance that will be required reading for linguists, cognitive psychologists, and philosophers of language alike.
Author : Irina Nikolaeva
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019152672X
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Finiteness written by Irina Nikolaeva and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-04-06 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the nature of finiteness, one of most commonly used notions in descriptive and theoretical linguistics but possibly one of the least understood. Scholars representing a variety of theoretical positions seek to clarify what it is and to establish its usefulness and limitations. In doing so they reveal cross-linguistically valid correlations between subject licensing, subject agreement, tense, syntactic opacity, and independent clausehood; show how these properties are associated with finiteness; and discuss what this means for the content of the category. The issues explored include how different grammatical theories represent finiteness; whether the finite/nonfinite distinction is universal; whether there are degrees of finiteness; whether the syntactic notion of finiteness has a semantic corollary; whether and how finiteness is subject to change; and how finiteness features in language acquisition. Irina Nikolaeva opens the book by describing the history of finiteness and its place in current thinking and research. She then introduces the chapters of the book, comparing the authors' perspectives and showing what they have in common. The book is then divided into four parts. Part I considers the role finiteness plays in formal syntactic theories and Part II its deployment in functional theories and as the subject of research in typology. Parts III and IV look respectively at the finite/nonfinite opposition in individual languages and at the role finiteness plays in linguistic change and linguistic development. The book is written and structured to appeal to scholars and students of syntax and general linguistics at graduate level and above.
Author : Stephan Kepser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110197545
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Linguistic Evidence written by Stephan Kepser and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renaissance of corpus linguistics and promising developments in experimental linguistic techniques in recent years have led to a remarkable revival of interest in issues of the empirical base of linguistic theory in general, and the status of different kinds of linguistic evidence in particular. Consensus is growing (a) that even so-called primary data (from introspection as well as authentic language production) are inherently complex performance data only indirectly reflecting the subject of linguistic theory, (b) that for an appropriate foundation of linguistic theories evidence from different sources such as introspective data, corpus data, data from (psycho-)linguistic experiments, historical and diachronic data, typological data, neurolinguistic data and language learning data are not only welcome but also often necessary. It is in particular by contrasting evidence from different sources with respect to particular research questions that we may gain a deeper understanding of the status and quality of the individual types of linguistic evidence on the one hand, and of their mutual relationship and respective weight on the other. The present volume is a collection of (selected) papers presented at the conference on 'Linguistic Evidence' in Tübingen 2004, which was explicitly devoted to the above issues. All of them address these issues in relation to specific linguistic research problems, thereby helping to establish a better understanding of the nature of linguistic evidence in particularly insightful ways.
Author : Andrea C. Schalley
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027223947
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Practical Theories and Empirical Practice written by Andrea C. Schalley and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a perceived tension between empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of language. Many recent works in the discipline emphasise that linguistics is an 'empirical science'. This volume argues for a nuanced view, highlighting that theory and practice necessarily and as a matter of fact complement each other in linguistic research. Its contributions ranging from experimental studies in psychology via linguistic fieldwork and cross-linguistic comparisons to the application of formal and logical approaches to language exemplify the mutual relationship between empirical and theoretical work. The volume illustrates how selected topics are addressed by different contributions and methodological stances. Topics include the cognitive grounding of language, social cognition and the construction of meaning in interaction, and, closely related, pragmatics from a typological perspective and beyond. Anyone interested in these topics and more generally in meta-theoretical considerations will find great value in this volume.
Author : Mortéza Mahmoudian
Publisher : Sound and Meaning: The Roman J
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Modern Theories of Language written by Mortéza Mahmoudian and published by Sound and Meaning: The Roman J. This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a controversial look at the study of linguistics today, Mortéza Mahmoudian examines twentieth-century theories of language in light of empirical evidence. In the past, linguists have had to choose between a general linguistic theory aimed at universal explanatory power and specific, limited linguistic models. Arguing that at various levels of linguistic analysis different theories offer more or less explanatory power, Mahmoudian makes a persuasive case for an integrated approach incorporating the strengths of both methods. The author begins with the identification of principles which, despite differences in terminology, are held in common by most twentieth-century linguists. He shows the implications, merits, and shortcomings of the major schools of linguistic thought, as well as the techniques one can use in gathering data. Ranging over a wide variety of international linguistic thinking, Mahmoudian takes up the question of what he calls experimentation, or the extent to which the application of certain linguistic theories have validity in constucting models. Simultaneously a survey of the current state of linguistic theory and a case for the necessity of empirical verification in linguistics, Modern Theories of Language builds a bridge across the gulf between many long-standing conflicts in the theory of language. Accessibly written, this provocative work predicts future theorerical and epistemological developments and will prove essential reading for students and scholars of linguistics, as well as specialists in cognitive psychology and Romance languages.
Author : Frederick J. Newmeyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521375818
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Linguistic Theory written by Frederick J. Newmeyer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Britta Stolterfoht
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 1614510881
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory written by Britta Stolterfoht and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mental representation of language cannot be directly observed but must be inferred and modelled from its effects at second hand. Linguists have traditionally responded to this in two ways, either going for a fairly data-light approach and valuing theoretical creativity, or pursuing just those goals for which data is available and trusting to data-driven descriptive work. More recently, advances in technology and experimental techniques have made data gathering easier and more accessible, so that a theoretically informed but empirically based approach is rapidly growing in popularity. This synthesis permits linguists to combine the intellectual hypothesis generation of the theoreticians with the ability to deliver hard answers of the empiricist. This volume is a collection of papers in this direction, using mostly experiment methods to yield insights into syntactic and semantic structures, language processing, and acquisition. Papers report corpus data, neurological investigations, child language studies, and fieldwork from minority languages.
Author : Hans-Jörg Schmid
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110216035
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Cognitive Foundations of Linguistic Usage Patterns written by Hans-Jörg Schmid and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-03-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents an up-to-date collection of methodologically sensitive contributions providing mainly enthusiastic, at times also critical support for the cognitive-linguistic enterprise. The book is important for the advancement of cognitive linguistics because the contributions demonstrate the seriousness of its ambitions to develop into a set of testable linguistic approaches. For the same reason, the volume is a contribution to our understanding of language in general, since it puts a promising modern approach on firmer ground. Assets of the book include the wide range of linguistic phenomena studied (individual concepts, fundamental semantic problems like vagueness and polysemy, grammatical issues incl. gender and tense, collocations, constructions and speech acts) and the scope of applied perspectives including lexicographical, computational, developmental and critical discourse ones. The languages investigated are English, German, Dutch, Polish and Italian. Common to the contributions is the desire to bring together observed patterns of linguistic usage with concepts and models established in cognitive linguistics. In addition, all contributions have an empirical basis and emphasize the need to rely on a sound methodology. The linguistic phenomena investigated span the range from the lexico-conceptual and collocational level to constructions, grammatical categories and functions. Two complementary perspectives of language and cognition are represented in the volume: In one group, the established methods of psycholinguistic experimentation, quantitative corpus analysis and computational simulation are exploited to demonstrate the viability and to increase the plausibility of cognitive-linguistic thinking. The second group tests well-known cognitive-linguistic approaches like Conceptual Metaphor Theory, the Theory of Idealized Cognitive Models and Construction Grammar against authentic data demonstrating their applicability and explanatory potential. Both groups include contributions reaching beyond the scope of traditional cognitive-linguistic topics, e.g. by taking a critical stance of reductionist cognitive thinking. The volume is of interest to cognitive linguists, psycholinguists, theoretical linguists, lexicologists, and lexicographers.
Author : Bruce L. Derwing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521087377
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Transformational Grammar as a Theory of Language Acquisition written by Bruce L. Derwing and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1973-06-21 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolution in linguistic thought associated with the name of Professor Noam Chomsky centres on the theory of transformational generation, especially in grammar. This book subjects the main theory and some of its applications to a searching critique. It finds the theory in some places circular, in general descriptively inadequate, but above all aprioristic and dangerously unempirical. Professor Derwing writes as a linguist particularly interested in the psychology of language acquisition, and conscious that the TGG model starts from assumptions about the mind and linguistic universals which dictate the form and the consequences of the argument. They strike Professor Derwing as arbitrary and merely formal, and as contradicting basic scientific mental habits. In brief, Professor Derwing disputes that TGG exemplifies proper empirical scientific inquiry; that something like a TGG is part of the output of normal language acquisition; or that TGG provides a valid heuristic for psychological investigation. He argues therefore for a more experimental approach if we are actually to discover how language is acquired.
Author : Bruce L. Derwing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Transformational Grammar and Language Acquisition written by Bruce L. Derwing and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Esa Itkonen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253313256
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Causality in Linguistic Theory written by Esa Itkonen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author seeks to examine the methodological and philosophical status of non-autonomous, that is, causal linguistics.
Author : Winfred Philipp Lehmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004351899
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Directions for Historical Linguistics written by Winfred Philipp Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, a reprint of one of the classics of historical linguistics, contains five papers originally presented at a 1966 symposium at the University of Texas at Austin. The individual contributions cover a broad range of topics, from Ferdinand de Saussure's influence on historical linguistics to the connection between inflectional paradigms and sound change to language change in contemporary linguistic communities. Each of the contributions has had a sizable effect on the development of linguistics; the final paper, by Uriel Weinreich, Marvin Herzog, and William Labov, for instance, laid the foundation for contemporary historical sociolinguistics. The volume has long been out of print; this new edition will make it accessible to a new generation of linguists.
Author : Esa Itkonen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027281394
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Grammatical Theory and Metascience written by Esa Itkonen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author analyses the nature of the science of grammar. After presenting some methodological and historical background, he sets forth a theory of language and of grammar, showing that the science of grammar is not an empirical, but a normative science, comparable to logic and philosophy, characterized by the use of the method of explication.
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Author : Uriel Weinreich
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Download or read book Empirical foundations for a theory of language change. [By] Uriel Weinreich, William Labov and Marvin I. Herzog written by Uriel Weinreich and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
