- PII
- S0373-658X0000375-5-1
- DOI
- 10.7868/SX0000375-5-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Volume/ Edition
- Volume / Issue 1
- Pages
- 3-21
- Abstract
- This article surveys judgments about the grammaticality or acceptability of sentences that are the most widely used data source in the syntactic literature, with a particular focus on the relevance of the evidence to the goals of generative grammar. After a background section overviewing the main notions and objectives of that framework, we can trace the fi eld's history in three major periods that are considered in the three subsequent sections: (i) Formative period, (ii) Experimental syntax period, and (iii) Old ideas revisited period. Typically, syntacticians rely on their own judgments, or those of a small number of colleagues; sometimes they rely on the Experimental syntax paradigm. The perspective adopted here is considered in the two last sections.
- Keywords
- grammatical correctness, grammatical acceptability, review, syntax, experiment, elucidation
- Date of publication
- 11.11.2025
- Year of publication
- 2025
- Number of purchasers
- 1
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- 623
RAS History & PhilologyВопросы языкознания Voprosy Jazykoznanija
- ISSN (Print) 0373-658X
- ISSN (Online) 3034-5243
EXPERIMENTAL SYNTAX AND SYNTAX EXPERIMENT
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