Ebook: Empirical linguistics

1. Introduction -- 2. From central embedding to empirical linguistics -- 3. Many Englishes or one English? -- 4. Depth in English grammar -- 5. Demographic correlates of complexity in British speech -- 6. The role of taxonomy -- 7. Good-Turing frequency estimation without tears -- 8. Objective evidence is all we need -- 9. What was Transformational Grammar? -- 10. Evidence against the grammatical/ungrammatical distinction -- 11. Meaning and the limits of science