Sampson, Geoffrey. <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783110290011 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Grammaticality (Linguistics)<br/>Grammar, Comparative and general.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P299.G7  / S26 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>415