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Methodological Principles
- pp 53-77
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This article examined formal, grammatical, communicative, and experimental evidence for the meaning of superlative quantifiers and showed how a linguistic problem can be attacked from any one of these directions, or a combination thereof.Abstract:
The goal of this course is to introduce you to methods of linguistic research. Specifically, we will examine the following approaches: 1. Formal, grammatical principles 2. Universal principles 3. Pragmatic, communicative principles 4. Experimental evidence 5. Corpus study 6. Descriptive approaches We will show how a linguistic problem can be attacked from any one of these directions, or a combination thereof. As a test case, we will look at accounts of the meaning of superlative quantifiers (at least and at most).read more
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