Syntax and Corpus. Presentation
Disciplines
Article
French
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1. Historical controversy In terms of syntax, the notion of corpus was highly controversial and remains problematic. Prior to Chomsky, the structionalists used corpus, but the term then referred to a representative and homogeneous sample of a particular syntactic aspect or language and was used in an exlusive empirical and taxonomic approach. It was against this kind of ‘corpus’ that Chomsky said when he started to develop...