Roots : : Linguistics in Search of its Evidential Base / / 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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 96
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Physical Description:1 online resource (383 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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