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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bybee, Joan L., Hopper, Paul J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; [Great Britain] : J. Benjamins, ©2001.
Colección:Typological studies in language ; v. 45.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • FREQUENCY AND THE EMERGENCE OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction to frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure; Part I: Patterns of Use; Transitivity, clause structure, and argument structure: Evidence from conversation; Local patterns of subjectivity in person and verb type in American English conversation; Paths to prepositions? A corpus-based study of the acquisition of a lexico-grammatical category; Part II: Word-level frequency effects; Lexical diffusion, lexical frequency, and lexical analysis.