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Negative evidence and the raw frequency fallacy

  • Anatol Stefanowitsch

Abstract

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.

Received: 2006-01
Revised: 2006-03
Accepted: 2006-03
Published Online: 2006-09-25
Published in Print: 2006-June-01

© Walter de Gruyter

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