27.4500, Books: Grammar Without Grammaticality: Sampson, Babarczy

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Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 11:43:13
From: Nora Voß [nora.voss at degruyter.com]
Subject: Grammar Without Grammaticality: Sampson, Babarczy

Title: Grammar Without Grammaticality 
Subtitle: Growth and Limits of Grammatical Precision 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]  

Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/183546?rskey=kG1ydS&format=B 

Author: Geoffrey Sampson
Author: Anna Babarczy

Paperback: ISBN:  9783110488067 Pages: 341 Price: U.S. $ 19.95

Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

Linguists have standardly assumed that grammar is about identifying all and
only the 'good' sentences of a language, which implies that there must be
other, 'bad' sentences- but in practice most linguists know that it is hard to
pin those down. The standard assumption is no more than an assumption. A
century ago, grammarians did not think about their subject that way, and our
book shows that the older idea was right: linguists can and should dispense
with the concept 'starred sentence'. We draw on corpus data in order to
support a different model of grammar, in which individuals refine positive
grammatical habits to greater or lesser extents in diverse and unpredictable
directions, but nothing is ever ruled out. Languages are not merely
alternative methods of verbalizing universal logical forms. We use empirical
evidence to shed light on the routes by which school-age children gradually
expand their battery of grammatical resources, which turn out to be sometimes
counter-intuitive. Our rejection of the 'starred sentence' concept has
attracted considerable discussion, and we summarize the reactions and respond
to our critics. The contrasting models of grammar described in this book
entail contrasting pictures of human nature; our closing chapter shows that
grammatical theory is not value-neutral but has an ethical dimension.

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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