The prevalent method in theoretical syntax and semantics research involves obtaining a
judgment of the acceptability of a sentence/meaning pair, typically by just the author of the …

This article surveys the major kinds of empirical evidence used by linguists, with a particular
focus on the relevance of the evidence to the goals of generative grammar. After a …

The prevalent method in syntax and semantics research involves obtaining a judgement of
the acceptability of a sentence/meaning pair, typically by just the author of the paper …

This paper presents three experiments that investigate the relationship between gradient
and binary judgments of grammaticality. In the first two experiments, two different groups of …

This article deals with the claim that the MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION (ME) method of
gathering acceptability judgments produces data that are more informative for linguists than …

This volume discusses methodological issues in conducting elicitation on semantic topics in
a fieldwork situation. In twelve chapters discussing 11 language families from four …

On the basis of five case studies from languages of the American Pacific Northwest, we
argue that, at least in the areas of syntax and semantics, a scientific approach to the study of …

This article addresses the question of whether the human parsing mechanism (HPM)
derives sentence meaning always from representations that are computed algorithmically or …

The question of what types of data and evidence can be used is one of the most important
topics in linguistics. This book is the first to comprehensively present the methodological …

Understanding and measuring sentence acceptability is of fundamental importance for
linguists, but although many measures for doing so have been developed, relatively little is …