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Remarks on Acceptability and Grammaticality [PDF]
Hermes, 1992 In the present paper a distinction is drawn between acceptability and grammaticality. These two concepts have often been confounded in the literature.
Bent Jacobsen
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Syntax Rules and (Un)Grammaticality
, 2022 This chapter deals with syntax rules and grammaticality judgments in the teaching and learning of English as a second and foreign language for linguistically diverse learners.
Waldmann, Christian, +1 more
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Teaching about grammaticality with online tools [PDF]
, 2021 This paper describes an introductory online assignment for an upper-division grammar class that helps students overcome preconceived notions about grammaticality.
Rapp Young, Beth, Beth Rapp Young
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Too True to Be Good? The Non-Uniformity of Extraction from Adjunct Clauses in English
Languages, 2022 Adjunct clauses are traditionally assumed to be strong islands for extraction across languages. However, the universal island status of adjunct clauses has been challenged by studies showing that extraction is possible from finite adjunct clauses in the ...
Anne Mette Nyvad +2 more
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Grammaticality and Acceptability in the Urhobo Language
, 2023 This paper examines grammaticality and acceptability in the Ulrhobo language. Grammaticality has to do with well formedness of syntactic structures; grammaticality is usually considered as the structure of sentences and the order in which they are ...
GODWIN-IVWORIN, JOSHUA RUESE +5 more
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Errors and Learning/Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language: an Exercise in Grammaticology
Altre Modernità, 2017 Despite ‘pendulum swings’ and ‘revolutions’ throughout the history of language teaching, the association of errors and grammar (of one’s native language or of a second/foreign language) has been a constant concern of language professionals as well as the
Andrea Nava
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 A search for the terms “acceptability judgment tasks” and “language” and “grammaticality judgment tasks” and “language” produces results which report findings that are based on the exact same elicitation technique.
Evelina Leivada +2 more
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Grammaticalité et changement d’acceptabilité : le cas de help
Anglophonia, 2018 This paper aims at establishing the role of processing factors on the evolution of acceptability in two case studies: the infinitival complementation of the verb help (with or without to) and the distribution of the construction [capacity + help].
Mathilde Pinson
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Strong Generative Capacity and the Empirical Base of Linguistic Theory
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 This Perspective traces the evolution of certain central notions in the theory of Generative Grammar (GG). The founding documents of the field suggested a relation between the grammar, construed as recursively enumerating an infinite set of sentences ...
Dennis Ott
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Language, 1945 [The paper outlines a general theory of grammatical categories. These fall into two main types, descriptive and taxonomic. Descriptive categories are either specific or generic. There are three kinds of specific categories: overt (phenotype), covert (cryptotype), and isosemantic; each of these is subdivided into selective categories and modulus ...
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