Sam Featherston
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 988249 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sam Featherston |
| NOMBRES | Sam |
| APELLIDO | Featherston |
| FIRMA | FEATHERSTON S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Essex |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Locative inversion and the surprise effect
This paper investigates locative inversion (LI) in English from three angles: (i) what are the contextual licensing requirements for this non-canonical word order, (ii) can LI license reflexive anaphors that are unbound in this construction, and (iii) does the presence of LI increase the level of surprise for the addressee? We examine the distribution of given and new information in LI with an introducing context and use different types of subjec…
Experiments in Focus
Quantitative Approaches to Grammar and Grammatical Change
The newly-emerging field of theoretically informed but simultaneously empirically based syntax is dynamic but little-represented in the literature. This volume addresses this need. While there has previously been something of a gulf between theoretical linguists in the generative tradition and those linguists who work with quantitative data types, this gap is narrowing. In the light of the empirical revolution in the study of syntax, even people …
The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics II
The second volume of the two-volume set The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics focuses on the linguistic outcomes of empirical linguistics. The contributions present some of the insights that linguists can gain by applying the new methods: progress within language study is accelerated by the new evidence since language systems are more precisely captured. Readers will enjoy the fresh perspective on linguistic questions made possible by the evidence-…
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Relax, lean back, and be a linguist
In this text I wish to raise some questions about the quantity and quality of data required in grammar research. In previous work I have argued, often emphatically, in favour of using more and better data, so that grammatical hypotheses are more descriptively adequate, and theory building less speculative. My arguments have been just a small part of a wider intellectual trend in this direction, since others have had similar thoughts, and research…
Data in generative grammar
This paper is intended to lay out for broader discussion some arguments for the importance of data in work in generative syntax. These are accepted by many linguists, but a significant number of others still seem reluctant to accept them. The basic claim is that it is no longer tenable for syntactic theories to be constructed on the evidence of a single person's judgements, and that real progress can only be made when syntacticians begin to think…
Trace in German
Universals and grammaticality
In this article we investigate the movement constraints superiority and discourse linking. These have played an important role in the tradition of generative syntax and might therefore be expected to be universal, but they are usually argued to be absent from German. We looked for evidence of them in German data using the methodology of magnitude estimation of wellformedness, and compared this data with parallel results from English. The results …
Magnitude estimation and what it can do for your syntax
Antecedent Priming at Trace Positions
Magnitude estimation and what it can do for your syntax
Trace in German
Universals and grammaticality
In this article we investigate the movement constraints superiority and discourse linking. These have played an important role in the tradition of generative syntax and might therefore be expected to be universal, but they are usually argued to be absent from German. We looked for evidence of them in German data using the methodology of magnitude estimation of wellformedness, and compared this data with parallel results from English. The results …
Antecedent Priming at Trace Positions
Antecedent Priming at Trace Positions
Trace in German
Universals and grammaticality
In this article we investigate the movement constraints superiority and discourse linking. These have played an important role in the tradition of generative syntax and might therefore be expected to be universal, but they are usually argued to be absent from German. We looked for evidence of them in German data using the methodology of magnitude estimation of wellformedness, and compared this data with parallel results from English. The results …
Magnitude estimation and what it can do for your syntax
Data in generative grammar
This paper is intended to lay out for broader discussion some arguments for the importance of data in work in generative syntax. These are accepted by many linguists, but a significant number of others still seem reluctant to accept them. The basic claim is that it is no longer tenable for syntactic theories to be constructed on the evidence of a single person's judgements, and that real progress can only be made when syntacticians begin to think…
The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics II
The second volume of the two-volume set The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics focuses on the linguistic outcomes of empirical linguistics. The contributions present some of the insights that linguists can gain by applying the new methods: progress within language study is accelerated by the new evidence since language systems are more precisely captured. Readers will enjoy the fresh perspective on linguistic questions made possible by the evidence-…
Product
Relax, lean back, and be a linguist
In this text I wish to raise some questions about the quantity and quality of data required in grammar research. In previous work I have argued, often emphatically, in favour of using more and better data, so that grammatical hypotheses are more descriptively adequate, and theory building less speculative. My arguments have been just a small part of a wider intellectual trend in this direction, since others have had similar thoughts, and research…
Quantitative Approaches to Grammar and Grammatical Change
The newly-emerging field of theoretically informed but simultaneously empirically based syntax is dynamic but little-represented in the literature. This volume addresses this need. While there has previously been something of a gulf between theoretical linguists in the generative tradition and those linguists who work with quantitative data types, this gap is narrowing. In the light of the empirical revolution in the study of syntax, even people …
Experiments in Focus
Locative inversion and the surprise effect
This paper investigates locative inversion (LI) in English from three angles: (i) what are the contextual licensing requirements for this non-canonical word order, (ii) can LI license reflexive anaphors that are unbound in this construction, and (iii) does the presence of LI increase the level of surprise for the addressee? We examine the distribution of given and new information in LI with an introducing context and use different types of subjec…
Computer Science (8 obras) · Linguistics (8 obras) · Philosophy (8 obras) · Grammar (7 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (7 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 obras) · Natural language processing (5 obras) · Generative grammar (4 obras) · German (4 obras) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 obras)