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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Boye, Kasper, 1972-, Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2010.
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.