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Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]

1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations

ISBN 9783110290011 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9783110289770 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs, ISSN 1861-4302 ; volume 254

Print version: Sampson, Geoffrey. Grammar without grammaticality : growth and limits of grammatical precision. Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014] xv, 341 pages Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; volume 254 ISBN 9783110289770

Includes bibliographical references and index

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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