Linguistic Evidence: Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Perspectives

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2005

Linguistic Evidence

Empirical, Theoretical and Computational Perspectives

Edited by: Stephan Kepser and Marga Reis

Volume 85 in the series Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110197549

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About this book

The renaissance of corpus linguistics and promising developments in experimental linguistic techniques in recent years have led to a remarkable revival of interest in issues of the empirical base of linguistic theory in general, and the status of different kinds of linguistic evidence in particular. Consensus is growing (a) that even so-called primary data (from introspection as well as authentic language production) are inherently complex performance data only indirectly reflecting the subject of linguistic theory, (b) that for an appropriate foundation of linguistic theories evidence from different sources such as introspective data, corpus data, data from (psycho-)linguistic experiments, historical and diachronic data, typological data, neurolinguistic data and language learning data are not only welcome but also often necessary. It is in particular by contrasting evidence from different sources with respect to particular research questions that we may gain a deeper understanding of the status and quality of the individual types of linguistic evidence on the one hand, and of their mutual relationship and respective weight on the other.

The present volume is a collection of (selected) papers presented at the conference on 'Linguistic Evidence' in Tübingen 2004, which was explicitly devoted to the above issues. All of them address these issues in relation to specific linguistic research problems, thereby helping to establish a better understanding of the nature of linguistic evidence in particularly insightful ways.

Author / Editor information

Stefan Kepser is Research Associate in the Department of Linguistics (SFB 441) at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.

Marga Reis is Professor in the Department of German Studies at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.

Reviews

"A volume which has indeed presented a rich picture of the role of linguistic evidence in the contemporary, especially generative, study of language."
Gerard Steen in: Functions of Language 1/2007

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Evidence in Linguistics Stephan Kepser and Marga Reis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Gradedness and Consistency in Grammaticality Judgments Aria Adli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Null Subjects and Verb Placement in Old High German Katrin Axel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Beauty and the Beast: What Running a Broad-Coverage Precision Grammar over the BNC Taught Us about the Grammar — and the Corpus Timothy Baldwin, John Beavers, Emily M. Bender, Dan Flickinger, Ara Kim and Stephan Oepen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Seemingly Indefinite Definites Greg Carlson and Rachel Shirley Sussman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Animacy as a Driving Cue in Change and Acquisition in Brazilian Portuguese Sonia M. L. Cyrino and Ruth E. V. Lopes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Aspectual Coercion and On-line Processing: The Case of Iteration Sacha DeVelle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Why Do Children Fail to Understand Weak Epistemic Terms? An Experimental Study Serge Doitchinov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Processing Negative Polarity Items: When Negation Comes Through the Backdoor Heiner Drenhaus, Stefan Frisch and Douglas Saddy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Linguistic Constraints on the Acquisition of Epistemic Modal Verbs Veronika Ehrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
The Decathlon Model of Empirical Syntax Sam Featherston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Examining the Constraints on the Benefactive Alternation by Using the World Wide Web as a Corpus Christiane Fellbaum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
A Quantitative Corpus Study of German Word Order Variation Kris Heylen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Which Statistics Reflect Semantics? Rethinking Synonymy and Word Similarity Derrick Higgins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Language Production Errors as Evidence for Language Production Processes – The Frankfurt Corpora Annette Hohenberger and Eva-Maria Waleschkowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
A Multi-Evidence Study of European and Brazilian Portuguese wh-Questions Mary Aizawa Kato and Carlos Mioto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
The Relationship between Grammaticality Ratings and Corpus Frequencies: A Case Study into Word Order Variability in the Midfield of German Clauses Gerard Kempen and Karin Harbusch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
The Emergence of Productive Non-Medical -itis: Corpus Evidence and Qualitative Analysis Anke Lüdeling and Stefan Evert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Experimental Data vs. Diachronic Typological Data: Two Types of Evidence for Linguistic Relativity Wiltrud Mihatsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
Reflexives and Pronouns in Picture Noun Phrases: Using Eye Movements as a Source of Linguistic Evidence Jeffrey T. Runner, Rachel S. Sussman and Michael K. Tanenhaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
The Plural is Semantically Unmarked Uli Sauerland, Jan Anderssen and Kazuko Yatsushiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Coherence – an Experimental Approach Tanja Schmid, Markus Bader and Josef Bayer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Thinking About What We Are Asking Speakers to Do Carson T. Schütze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
A Prosodic Factor for the Decline of Topicalisation in English Augustin Speyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
On the Syntax of DP Coordination: Combining Evidence from Reading-Time Studies and Agrammatic Comprehension Ilona Steiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507
Lexical Statistics and Lexical Processing: Semantic Density, Information Complexity, Sex, and Irregularity in Dutch Wieke M. Tabak, Robert Schreuder and R. Harald Baayen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	529
The Double Competence Hypothesis On Diachronic Evidence Helmut Weiß Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	557
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 581
Keywords: Corpus Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Language Acquisition

eBook

Published: August 22, 2008
ISBN: 9783110197549

Hardcover

Published: December 15, 2005
ISBN: 9783110183122