The mental representation of language cannot be directly observed but must be inferred and modelled from its effects at second hand. Linguists have traditionall

This volume further elaborates the empirical tradition of Columbia School (CS) Linguistics by offering diverse empirical analyses for a wide variety of language

There is a perceived tension between empirical and theoretical approaches to the study of language. Many recent works in the discipline emphasise that linguisti

Over the past decade, conducting empirical research in linguistics has become increasingly popular. The first of its kind, this book provides an engaging and pr

Throughout much of the history of linguistics, grammaticality judgments - intuitions about the well-formedness of sentences - have constituted most of the empir