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Frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure /
A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; [Great Britain] :
J. Benjamins,
©2001.
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| Colección: | Typological studies in language ;
v. 45. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used in discourse and second, the question of how frequency of use affects cognitive representations. Reporting on evidence from natural conversation, diachronic change, variability, child language acquisition and psycholinguistic experimentation the original articles in this book support two major princi. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 492 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027298034 9027298033 9781588110275 1588110273 9781588110282 1588110281 1282162373 9781282162372 9786612162374 6612162376 |
| ISSN: | 0167-7373 ; |