TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sampson,Geoffrey
AU  - Babarczy,Anna
TI  - Grammar without grammaticality: growth and limits of grammatical precision 
T2  - Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs,
AV  - P299.G7 S26 2014
U1  - 415 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Grammaticality (Linguistics)
KW  - Grammar, Comparative and general
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
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ER  -