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" Grammar without grammaticality : "
Geoffrey Sampson, Anna Babarczy.
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616508
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Sampson, Geoffrey.
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Grammar without grammaticality : : growth and limits of grammatical precision /\ Geoffrey Sampson, Anna Babarczy.
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs,; volume 254
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1 online resource (359 pages) :: illustrations.
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9783110289770
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: 9783110290011
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Grammar is said to be about defining all and only the 'good' sentences of a language, implying that there are other, 'bad' sentences - but it is hard to pin those down. A century ago, grammarians did not think that way, and they were right: linguists can and should dispense with 'starred sentences'. Corpus data support a different model: individuals develop positive grammatical habits of growing refinement, but nothing is ever ruled out. The contrasting models entail contrasting pictures of human nature; our final chapter shows that grammatical theory is not value-neutral but has an ethical dimension.
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Grammaticality (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Babarczy, Anna.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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