مؤلف: Geoffrey Sampson

This book presents a challenge to the widely-held assumption that human languages are both similar and constant in their degree of complexity. For a hundred years or more the universal equality of …

Linguists have standardly assumed that grammar is about identifying all and only the ‘good’ sentences of a language, which implies that there must be other, ‘bad’ sentences – but in practice most lin …

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The Chinese "Book of Odes" (Shijing) is a collection of 305 poems dating from between 1000 and 600 B.C., and, thus, is one of the earliest literary works in any living language. It offers …

A thousand years ago, someone called Anselm decided that people should not believe things just because the Bible said they were so-and, to his delight, he proved the most important issue of all, the …

When it was first published in 1997, Geoffrey Sampson”s Educating Eve was described as the definitive response to Steven Pinker”s The Language Instinct and Noam Chomsky”s nativism. In this revised …

Corpus Linguistics seeks to provide a comprehensive sampling of real-life usage in a given language, and to use these empirical data to test language hypotheses. Modern corpus linguistics began fifty …

This book records a unique attempt over a ten-year period to use stochastic optimization in the natural language processing domain. Setting the work against the background of the logical rule-based …

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 …