Laboratoriumzinnen in het tijdperk van de kwantitatieve taalkunde

Abstract Laboratory sentences in the era of quantitative linguistics This paper briefly compares an early (1996) and a later (2010) article that I published in Nederlandse Taalkunde, concentrating on the different methodologies underlying the two papers: A formal theoretical in-depth analysis of one idiolect in the first paper and a large-scale quantitative and theoretical approach in the second. It is argued that the two methods make different contributions and are both necessary to develop a theory of (im-)possible syntactic structures in natural language.