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Anatol Stefanowitsch

Negative evidence and the raw frequency fallacy

Introduction

There is little that is more completely accepted in the conventional wisdom of modern linguistics than the assumption that corpora do not contain negative evidence and that, therefore, intuition-based acceptability judgments are an indispensable part of linguistic methodology.

Corpus Linguistics and Lingustic Theory, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 1613-7027
Volume: 2
Pages: 61 - 77

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