Roots : : Linguistics in Search of its Evidential Base / / ed. by Sam Featherston, Wolfgang Sternefeld.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• MitwirkendeR: Arnold, Doug,; Arnon, Inbal,; Axel, Katrin,; Bosch, Peter,; Bott, Oliver,; Bresnan, Joan,; Clahsen, Harald,; Clifton, Charles,; Dieser, Elena,; Featherston, Sam,; Frazier, Lyn,; Féry, Caroline,; Heeringa, Wilbert,; Hoffman, Thomas,; Hofmeister, Philip,; Jaeger, T. Florian,; Karabanov, Anke,; Kiziak, Tanja,; König, Peter,; Lenertová, Denisa,; Lichte, Timm,; Nerbonne, John,; Radó, Janina,; Sadler, Louisa,; Sag, Ivan A.,; Sapp, Christopher D.,; Skopeteas, Stavros,; Snider, Neal,; Soehn, Jan-Philipp,; Steiner, Ilona,; Sternefeld, Wolfgang,; Stolterfoht, Britta,; Sudhoff, Stefan,; Villavicencio, Aline,
• HerausgeberIn: Featherston, Sam,; Sternefeld, Wolfgang,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 96
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (383 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; The evidential base of linguistics: Work in --; progress --; Portuguese: Corpora, coordination and --; agreement --; Contributing to the extraction/parenthesis debate: --; Judgement studies and historical data --; Quantifying quantifier scope: A --; cross-methodological comparison --; Is syntactic knowledge probabilistic? Experiments --; with the English dative alternation --; Psycholinguistic perspectives on grammatical --; representations --; Early language separation: A longitudinal study of --; a Russian-German bilingual child --; ‘I need data which I can rely on’: Corroborating --; empirical evidence on preposition placement in English relative --; clauses --; Locality and accessibility in wh-questions --; Eye Tracking as a tool to investigate the --; comprehension of referential expressions --; Corpus data and experimental results as prosodic --; evidence: On the case of stressed auch in German --; The retrieval and classification of negative --; polarity items using statistical profiles --; Geographic distributions of linguistic --; variationreflect dynamics of differentiation --; Focus and verb order in Early New High German: --; Historical and contemporary evidence --; Contrastive topics in pairing answers: A --; cross-linguistic production study --; Coordinate structures: On the relationship between --; parsing preferences and corpus frequencies --; Adverbs and sentence topics in processing --; English --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110198621; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110212129; 9783110212136; 9783110209457
• ISSN: 0167-4331
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110198621
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Sam Featherston, Wolfgang Sternefeld.

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.