TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Pullum, Geoffrey K.
ED  - Konopka, Marek
ED  - Wöllstein, Angelika
T1  - Theory, data, and the epistemology of syntax
T2  - Grammatische Variation. Empirische Zugänge und theoretische Modellierung
N2  - Syntactic theory has tended to vacillate between implausible methodological extremes. Some linguists hold that our theories are accountable solely for the corpus of attested utterances; others assume our subject matter is unobservable intuitive feelings about sentences. Both extremes should be rejected. The subject matter of syntax is neither past utterance production nor the functioning of inaccessible mental machinery; it is normative - a system of tacitly grasped constraints defining correctness of structure. There are interesting parallels between syntactic and moral systems, modulo the key difference that linguistic systems are diverse whereas morality is universal. The appropriate epistemology for justifying formulations of normative systems is familiar in philosophy: it is known as the method of reflective equilibrium.
T3  - Jahrbuch / Institut für Deutsche Sprache - -          2016 - 
KW  - Sprachvariante
KW  - Syntax
KW  - Methodologie
KW  - Epistemische Logik
KW  - Normativität
Y1  - 2017
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-100215
SN  - 978-3-11-051821-4
SB  - 978-3-11-051821-4
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110518214-016
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110518214-016
SP  - 283
EP  - 298
PB  - de Gruyter
CY  - Berlin [u.a.]
ER  -