Grammaticality as evidence and as prediction in a Galilean linguistics

Language Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 612-633

  Riemer, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Data in linguistics; Galilean science; Grammaticality; Philosophy of generative grammar; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349271017     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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