Elaine J. Francis (Professor, Department of English, Associate Prof

Broschiertes Buch

Gradient Acceptability and Linguistic Theory

Beschreibung

This volume examines the interpretation of gradient judgments of sentence acceptability in relation to theories of grammatical knowledge. It uses experimental and corpus-based research, along with a range of case studies, to argue for a new approach to this crucial problem.

Autor

Elaine J. Francis is a professor in the Department of English at Purdue University, where she has been teaching linguistics and directing the Experimental Linguistics Lab since 2003. She completed her PhD in linguistics at the University of Chicago in 1999 and taught for three years in the Department of English at the University of Hong Kong. In her research, she investigates syntactic, discourse, and processing-based factors that affect the realization of syntactic alternations in English and Cantonese.

Produktdetails

• Oxford Surveys in Syntax & Morphology
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 171mm x 247mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780192898951
• ISBN-10: 0192898957
• Artikelnr.: 62112100