[Corpora-List] Citing examples

[Zygmunt Vetulani]

Interesting (and surprisingly complex) problem.
My solution is as follows.
1) As the reason of using the example is other then reproduce an 
oppinion, message,  content etc. then there is  no matter of 
copyrights,  therefore the non-citation  the source will not be case of 
copyrghts violation,
2) it does not make sense to cite the source of common sentencs or 
grammatical patterns of the kind /"I love you"./ (In this case GOD is 
the sole copyright owner, and I do not think that He will clame his 
rights!), but
3) it DOES make sense to provide the source in case of uncommon, rare, 
biased etc. constructions just in order to give the reader at least a 
/theoretical /chance to check the soundness of the argumentation the 
example is used for,
4) in case one intends to argue on basis of sb's usage (e.g. on a 
particular /act of speech/)  the source citation is appropriate.
Best
Zygmunt Vetulani

Brett Reynolds pisze:
> If you are simply including a sentence as an example of a grammatical pattern, is it typical to cite the source? Does the APA manual deal with this issue? 
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> Best,
> Brett
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