Intuition and beyond: A hierarchy of descriptive methods



: Anneli Pajunen, Esa Itkonen

: Aleksi Mäkilähde, Ville Leppänen, Esa Itkonen

Publisher: JOHN BENJAMINS B V PUBL, PO BOX 36224 ,, 1020 AMSTERDAM ME, NETHERLANDS

: 2019

: Studies in Language Companion Series

: Normativity in Language and Linguistics

: NORMATIVITY IN LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

: STUD LANG C

: Studies in Language Companion Series

: 209

: 213

: 234

: 22

: 978-9-02-720399-1

: 978-9-02-726216-5

: 0165-7763

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.209.08paj


From the methodological point of view, linguistics is not a monolith. Nor is it an arbitrary conglomerate of unrelated methods. Rather, the methods most commonly used in linguistic description constitute a definite hierarchy that is motivated both logically and temporally, namely: intuition-based research > corpus research > experimentation. The last stage is in turn divided into loose (i.e. questionnaire method) and strict (e.g. eye movement research). It is the purpose of the present article to justify this thesis in some detail.



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