@incollection{KeibelBelicaKupietzetal.2016, author = {Holger Keibel and Cyril Belica and Marc Kupietz and Rainer Perkuhn}, title = {Approaching grammar: Detecting, conceptualizing and generalizing paradigmatic variation}, series = {Grammatik und Korpora. Dritte Internationale Konferenz. Mannheim, 22. - 24.9.2009}, booktitle = {Grammar \& Corpora 2009. Third International Conference. Mannheim, 22. - 24.9.2009}, editor = {Marek Konopka and Jacqueline Kubczak and Christian Mair and František Šticha and Ulrich Hermann Wa{\"s}ner}, publisher = {Narr}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, isbn = {978-3-8233-6648-5}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-47783}, pages = {329 -- 355}, year = {2016}, abstract = {This paper presents ongoing research which is embedded in an empirical-linguistic research program, set out to devise viable research strategies for developing an explanatory theory of grammar as a psychological and social phenomenon. As this phenomenon cannot be studied directly, the program attempts to approach it indirectly through its correlates in language corpora, which is justified by referring to the core tenets of Emergent Grammar. The guiding principle for identifying such corpus correlates of grammatical regularities is to imitate the psychological processes underlying the emergent nature of these regularities. While previous work in this program focused on syntagmatic structures, the current paper goes one step further by investigating schematic structures that involve paradigmatic variation. It introduces and explores a general strategy by which corpus correlates of such structures may be uncovered, and it further outlines how these correlates may be used to study the nature of the psychologically real schematic structures.}, language = {en} }