The thin line between facts and fiction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Empirical linguistics: Process and product vii
4. Linguistic choices vs. probabilities – how much and what can linguistic theory explain? 1
5. How to provide exactly one interpretation for every sentence, or what eye movements reveal about quantifier scope 25
6. A scale for measuring well-formedness: Why syntax needs boiling and freezing points 47
7. The thin line between facts and fiction 75
8. Annotating genericity: How do humans decide? (A case study in ontology extraction) 103
9. Canonicity in argument realization and verb semantic deficits in Alzheimer’s disease 123
10. Automated collection and analysis of phonological data 151
11. Semantic evidence and syntactic theory 177
12. Automated support for evidence retrieval in documents with nonstandard orthography 211
13. Scaling issues in the measurement of linguistic acceptability 229
14. Conjoint analysis in linguistics – Multi-factorial analysis of Slavonic possessive adjectives 247