Full Description
Currently, one of the methodological debates in linguistics focuses on the question of what kinds of data are allowed in different linguistic theories and what subtypes of data can work as evidence for or against particular hypotheses. The first part of the volume puts forward a methodological framework called the 'p-model' that is expected to account for the data/evidence problem in linguistics. The aim of the case studies in the second part is to show how this framework can be applied to the everyday research practice of the working linguist, and how it can increase the effectiveness of linguistic theorising. Accordingly, the case studies exemplify that the p-model can come to grips with diverse object-scientific quandaries in syntax, semantics and pragmatics. The third part includes case studies that illustrate how it copes with metascientific issues such as inconsistency in linguistic theories and the relationship between thought experiments and real experiments.
Contents
1. Chapter 1. Introduction: The state of the art and the structure of the book (by Kertesz, Andras); 2. Part I: The methodological framework; 3. Chapter 2. The p-model of data and evidence in linguistics (by Kertesz, Andras); 4. Part II: Object-theoretical applications; 5. Chapter 3. The plausibility of approaches to syntactic alternation of Hungarian verbs (by Bibok, Karoly); 6. Chapter 4. Methods and argumentation in historical linguistics: A case study (by Nagy C., Katalin); 7. Chapter 5. Hungarian verbs of natural phenomena with explicit and implicit subject arguments: Their use and occurrence in the light of data (by Nemeth T., Eniko); 8. Chapter 6. The development of a taxonomy of verbal disagreements in the light of the p-model (by Koczogh, Helga Vanda); 9. Chapter 7. A case of disagreement: On plural reduplicating particles in Hungarian (by Rakosi, Gyorgy); 10. Chapter 8. A plausibility-based model of shifted indexicals (by Vecsey, Zoltan); 11. Part III: Metatheoretical applications; 12. Chapter 9. Thought experiments and real experiments as converging data sources in pragmatics (by Kertesz, Andras); 13. Chapter 10. Data and the resolution of inconsistency in Optimality Theory (by Rakosi, Csilla); 14. Chapter 11. Conclusions (by Kertesz, Andras); 15. Author index; 16. Subject index
