Language usage and language structure /
The volume addresses an issue hotly debated in current linguistic theory: the relation between language usage and language structure. The contributors represent different theoretical positions. What they have in common is that they recognize structure and usage as non-reducible linguistic phenomena...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; New York :
De Gruyter Mouton,
©2010.
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Colección: | Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ;
213. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Usage and structure: the case of clausal complementation: What conversational English tells us about the nature of grammar: a critique of Thompson's analysis of object complements / Frederick J. Newmeyer
- Usage, structure, scientific explanation, and the role of abstraction, by linguists and by language users / Arie Verhagen
- Raising verbs and auxiliaries in a functional theory of grammatical status / Kasper Boye
- The rise of structure: How not to disagree: the emergence of structure from usage / Ronald W. Langacker
- Paradigmatic structure in a usage-based theory of grammaticalisation / Lars Heltoft
- Where do simple clauses come from? / T. Givón
- Structure, usage and variation: Alternative agreement controllers in Danish: usage or structure? / Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen and Mads Poulsen
- Schmidt redux: How systematic is the linguistic system if variation is rampant? / Dirk Geeraerts
- More tiles on the roof: further thoughts on incremental language production / J. Lachlan Mackenzie
- Reconciling structure and usage: on the advantages of a dynamic, dialogic conception of the linguistic sign / Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
- Methodology: Ten unwarranted assumptions in syntactic argumentation / William Croft.