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Title |
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3. Grammaticality Meets Real-life Usage - The Linguistics Delusion |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Geoffrey Sampson; United Kingdom |
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linguistics |
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discipline of linguistics; academic study of linguistics; linguistics as a science; history of linguistics; Karl Popper; refuatbility; linguistic research; grammaticality |
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academic study of linguistics |
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Description |
Abstract |
Linguists of all schools believe in some kind of contrast, in any language, between “grammatical” sequences of words and ill-formed sequences, sometimes marking the latter with stars. This division is often conceptualized in ways that are more sophisticated than a simple black/white contrast, but few linguists question the fundamental concept of grammaticality. However, grammaticality is a myth. There are no such things as “starred sentences”. This is not a mere aprioristic claim, it rests on hard evidence. I have been putting this point of view forward for many years now; my previous versions of the argument have sometimes been criticized as based on small quantities of data which I compiled myself, raising a suspicion of circularity, and they related only to English, arguably an untypical case. So here I look at a larger, non-English data-set compiled by people with whom I have no connexion. The results are very comparable to those which emerged from my English data. |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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14-Sep-2017 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/32131 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.32131 |
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Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; The Linguistics Delusion |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |