Newmeyer and his Critics
Topics:
Readings:
Frederick Newmeyer. 2003.
Grammar is Grammar and Usage is Usage
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Language
79: 682-707.
Gahl, Susanne & Susan Garnsey (2004.
Knowledge of Grammar, Knowledge of Usage: Syntactic Probabilities Affect Pronunciation Variation
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Language
80: 748-775.
Frederick Newmeyer. 2006.
On Gahl and Garnsey on Grammar and Usage
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Language
82: 399-404.
Supplementary Readings:
Susanne Gahl and Susan Garnsey. 2006.
Knowledge of Grammar Includes Knowledge of Syntactic Probabilities
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Language
82: 405-410.
Various other brief responses to Newmeyer, and his rebuttal in
Language
81.1:
Clark
Laury and Ono
Meyer and Tao
Newmeyer's Response
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