Featherston / Sternefeld Roots

Linguistics in Search of its Evidential Base
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019862-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 96, 389 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]ISSN

The renewed focus on the evidential base of linguistics in general, but particularly on syntax, is in to a large degree dependent on technological developments: computers, electronic storage and transmission. These factors have enabled a revolution in the accessibility of digitally stored language, both in sampled and organized corpora and in its raw unsampled form on the internet. But this technology has also allowed a step-change in experimental methods readily available to linguists. The new arrival of such enormous quantities of data in greatly increased detail has made information accessible which could previously not even have been dreamed of. This volume is a selection of research reports from linguists who are making use of this new information and trying to integrate the new insights into their analyses and theoretical assumptions.

Zielgruppe

Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Linguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Featherston, Sam

Sternefeld, Wolfgang

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;The evidential base of linguistics: Work in progress;7
4;Portuguese: Corpora, coordination and agreement;15
5;Contributing to the extraction/parenthesis debate: Judgement studies and historical data;35
6;Quantifying quantifier scope: A cross-methodological comparison;59
7;Is syntactic knowledge probabilistic? Experiments with the English dative alternation;81
8;Psycholinguistic perspectives on grammatical representations;103
9;Early language separation: A longitudinal study of a Russian-German bilingual child;139
10;‘I need data which I can rely on’: Corroborating empirical evidence on preposition placement in English relative clauses;167
11;Locality and accessibility in wh-questions;191
12;Eye Tracking as a tool to investigate the comprehension of referential expressions;213
13;Corpus data and experimental results as prosodic evidence: On the case of stressed auch in German;233
14;The retrieval and classification of negative polarity items using statistical profiles;255
15;Geographic distributions of linguistic variationreflect dynamics of differentiation;273
16;Focus and verb order in Early New High German: Historical and contemporary evidence;305
17;Contrastive topics in pairing answers: A cross-linguistic production study;325
18;Coordinate structures: On the relationship between parsing preferences and corpus frequencies;347
19;Adverbs and sentence topics in processing English;367
20;Backmatter;381

Über Autor(innen)

Sam Featherston, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany; Wolfgang Sternefeld, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany.