The empirical base of linguistics: Grammaticality judgments and linguistic methodology
Abstract
Throughout much of the history of linguistics, grammaticality judgments – intuitions about the well-formedness of sentences – have constituted most of the empirical base against which theoretical hypothesis have been tested. Although such judgments often rest on subtle intuitions, there is no systematic methodology for eliciting them, and their apparent instability and unreliability have led many to conclude that they should be abandoned as a source of data.
Keywords
linguistic methodology; grammaticality judgements; intuition; Noam Chomsky; Parsing; SyntaxDOI
10.26530/OAPEN_603356ISBN
9783946234043OCN
945783708Publisher
Language Science PressPublisher website
https://langsci-press.org/Publication date and place
2016Series
Classics in Linguistics, 3Classification
Linguistics