Evidence and Argumentation in Linguistics

✍ Scribed by Thomas A. Perry (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 384
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I. The Domain of Linguistic Theory
Linguistically-Significant Attributes of Linguistic Objects
Discourse Grammars and Conversational Principles
Idealizations in the Development of a Sociolinguistic Theory
II. The Methodological Status of Linguistic Theories
Linguistic Facts
Is linguistics empirical? A critique of Esa Itkonen’s Linguistics and Metascience
Reply to Dahl
Against Autonomous Linguistics
On the Similarity Between Skinner and Chomsky
III. Formal Methods in Linguistic Research
Axiom, Theorem, and Rule
The Relevance of Mathematical Linguistics to Empirical Linguistics
IV. The Interpretation of Linguistic Arguments
‘The Theory Comparison Method’ vs. ‘The Theory Exposition Method’ in Linguistic Inquiry
On Grammatical Ambiguity
Generative Semantics: Ethnoscience or Ethnomethodology?
V. Quantitative Methods in Linguistic Research
Syntactic Frequency and Acceptability
Syntactic Markedness and Frequency of Occurrence
Qualitative vs. Quantitative Analysis in Linguistics
Author Index
Subject Index