(Mis)judging Ordinary Meaning?: Corpus Linguistics, the Frequency Fallacy, and the Extension-Abstraction Distinction in “Ordinary Meaning” Textualism

Rarely is a new yardstick of legal meaning created. But over the past decade, corpus linguistics has begun to be utilized as a new tool to measure ordinary meaning in statutory interpretation and original public meaning in constitutional interpretation. The legal application of corpus linguistics po...

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Main Author: Klapper Shlomo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2019-12-01
Series:British Journal of American Legal Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2019-0013