The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: Morphosyntactic variation in North American English
| Autor: | Jason Zentz, Raffaella Zanuttini, Laurence R. Horn, Jim Wood |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Geospatial analysis media_common.quotation_subject 06 humanities and the arts computer.software_genre Language and Linguistics language.human_language Linguistics 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Survey methodology Variation (linguistics) Geography 0602 languages and literature Theoretical linguistics language 0305 other medical science North American English computer Diversity (politics) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Linguistics Vanguard. 4 |
| ISSN: | 2199-174X |
| DOI: | 10.1515/lingvan-2016-0070 |
| Popis: | The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project approaches the empirical domain of North American English from the perspective of generative microcomparative syntax. In addition to eliciting judgments from speakers of particular varieties, we also conduct large-scale surveys, map the results of those surveys geographically, conduct statistical tests taking geography and other social variables into account, and look for theoretically significant linguistic correlations. In all cases, we do this with the primary goal of understanding variation between speakers at the individual level. While our goals and methodologies are informed by our theoretical perspective, we expect that our work and results will be of interest to linguists working in other frameworks and even to the public more generally. This article outlines the goals and methodologies of the project and describes in broad strokes some of the results obtained so far, as well as some of the ways we have shared our findings with others, inside and outside academia. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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