Evidence and Argumentation in Linguistics

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Frontmatter -- Preface / Perry, Thomas A. -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Perry, Thomas A. -- I. The Domain of Linguistic Theory -- Linguistically-Significant Attributes of Linguistic Objects / Sanders, Gerald A. -- Discourse Grammars and Conversational Principles / Wirth, Jessica R. -- Idealizations in the Development of a Sociolinguistic Theory / Berdan, Robert -- II. The Methodological Status of Linguistic Theories -- Linguistic Facts / Ringen, Jon D. -- Is linguistics empirical? A critique of Esa Itkonen's Linguistics and Metascience / Dahl, Östen -- Reply to Dahl / Itkonen, Esa -- Against Autonomous Linguistics / Derwing, Bruce L. -- On the Similarity Between Skinner and Chomsky / Linell, Per -- III. Formal Methods in Linguistic Research -- Axiom, Theorem, and Rule / Hutchinson, Larry G. -- The Relevance of Mathematical Linguistics to Empirical Linguistics / D'Agostino, F. B. -- IV. The Interpretation of Linguistic Arguments -- 'The Theory Comparison Method' vs. 'The Theory Exposition Method' in Linguistic Inquiry / Botha, Rudolf P. -- On Grammatical Ambiguity / Kac, Michael B. -- Generative Semantics: Ethnoscience or Ethnomethodology? / D'Agostino, F. B. -- V. Quantitative Methods in Linguistic Research -- Syntactic Frequency and Acceptability / Greenbaum, Sidney -- Syntactic Markedness and Frequency of Occurrence / Schwartz, Linda J. -- Qualitative vs. Quantitative Analysis in Linguistics / Itkonen, Esa -- Author Index -- Subject Index