Empirical Linguistics

by Geoffrey Sampson

Book Overview

Linguistics has become an empirical science again after several decades when it was preoccupied with speakers' hazy "intuitions" about language structure. With a mixture of English-language case studies and more theoretical analyses, Geoffrey Sampson gives an overview of some of the new findings and insights about the nature of language which are emerging from investigations of real-life speech and writing, often (although not always) using computers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826457940
• ISBN13: 9780826457943
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 9.4"