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Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory: Studies in Meaning and Structure

Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory: Studies in Meaning and Structure

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [Sgg], Book 111

Linguistics

ISBN10: 161451089X
ISBN13: 9781614510895
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Sep 14 2012
Pages: 357
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
The mental representation of language cannot be directly observed but must be inferred and modelled from its effects at second hand. Linguists have traditionally responded to this in two ways, either going for a fairly data-light approach and valuing theoretical creativity, or pursuing just those goals for which data is available and trusting to data-driven descriptive work.

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