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Grammar without grammaticality
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Geoffrey R Sampson
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20. August 2007
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1. Introduction
A key intellectual advance in 20th-century linguistics lay in the realization that a typical human language allows the construction not just of a very large number of distinct utterances but actually of infinitely many distinct utterances. However, although languages came to be seen as non-finite systems in that respect, they were seen as bounded systems: any particular sequence of words, it was and is supposed, either is wellformed or is not, though infinitely many distinct sequences are each wellformed. I believe that the concept of “ungrammatical” or “ill-formed” word-sequences is a delusion, based on a false conception of the kind of thing a human language is.
Published Online: 2007-08-20
Published in Print: 2007-04-19
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- Grammar without grammaticality
- Ungrammaticality, rarity, and corpus use
- Advancing linguistics between the extremes: Some thoughts on Geoffrey R. Sampson's “Grammar without grammaticality”
- Linguistics beyond grammaticality
- Real bad grammar: Realistic grammatical description with grammaticality
- “Good is good and bad is bad”: but how do we know which one we had?
- Take empiricism seriously! In support of methodological diversity in linguistics
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