Grammar without grammaticality : growth and limits of grammatical precision /
Sampson, Geoffrey.
Grammar without grammaticality : growth and limits of grammatical precision / Geoffrey Sampson, Anna Babarczy. - 1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations. - Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, volume 254 1861-4302 ; . - Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 254. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Grammar is said to be about defining all and only the 'good' sentences of a language, implying that there are other, 'bad' sentences - but it is hard to pin those down. A century ago, grammarians did not think that way, and they were right: linguists can and should dispense with 'starred sentences'. Corpus data support a different model: individuals develop positive grammatical habits of growing refinement, but nothing is ever ruled out. The contrasting models entail contrasting pictures of human nature; our final chapter shows that grammatical theory is not value-neutral but has an ethical dimension.
9783110290011
Grammaticality (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Electronic books.
P299.G7 / S26 2014
415
Grammar without grammaticality : growth and limits of grammatical precision / Geoffrey Sampson, Anna Babarczy. - 1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations. - Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, volume 254 1861-4302 ; . - Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 254. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Grammar is said to be about defining all and only the 'good' sentences of a language, implying that there are other, 'bad' sentences - but it is hard to pin those down. A century ago, grammarians did not think that way, and they were right: linguists can and should dispense with 'starred sentences'. Corpus data support a different model: individuals develop positive grammatical habits of growing refinement, but nothing is ever ruled out. The contrasting models entail contrasting pictures of human nature; our final chapter shows that grammatical theory is not value-neutral but has an ethical dimension.
9783110290011
Grammaticality (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Electronic books.
P299.G7 / S26 2014
415