Empirical linguistics

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Label

Empirical linguistics

Statement of responsibility

Geoffrey Sampson

Creator

• Sampson, Geoffrey

Subject

• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• Empirische methoden
• Linguistics -- Methodology
• Linguistics -- Methodology
• PHILOSOPHY -- Language
• Taalwetenschap

Language

eng

Summary

Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy "intuitions" about language structure. With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Geoffrey Sampson gives an overview of some of the new findings and insights about the nature of language which are emerging from investigations of real-life speech and writing, often (although not always) using computers and electronic language samples ("corpora"). Concrete evidence is brought to bear to resolve long-standing questions such as

Member of

• Open linguistics series
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

410/.1

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

P126

LC item number

.S24 2001eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Open linguistics series