Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory : : Studies in Meaning and Structure / / ed. by Britta Stolterfoht, Sam Featherston.

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 go...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 111
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Part 1: Methods and analysis
  • Incremental truth value judgments
  • Measuring Syntactic Priming in Dialogue Corpora
  • How structure-sensitive is the parser? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese
  • The annotation of preposition senses in German
  • Part 2: Applications to linguistic theory
  • Evidence about evidentials: Where fieldwork meets theory
  • Crosslinguistic variation in comparison: evidence from child language acquisition
  • Restricting quantifier scope in Dutch: Evidence from child language comprehension and production
  • McGee’s counterexample to Modus Ponens in context
  • Interpreting adjectival passives: Evidence for the activation of contrasting states
  • Focus projection between theory and evidence
  • Locative Inversion in English: Implications of a Rating Study
  • Part 3: Cognitive and neurological basis of language
  • Word- vs. sentence-based simulation effects in language comprehension
  • Language skills in patients with reorganized language (RL)
  • Predicting speech imitation ability biometrically
  • Index