Language, usage and cognition /

"Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; utterances within a language differ from one another while exhibiting the same structural patterns; languages change over...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bybee, Joan L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Usage.
Cognitive grammar.
Linguistic change.
Langage et langues > Usage.
Grammaire cognitive.
Changement linguistique.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Cognitive grammar
Language and languages > Usage
Linguistic change
Sprachgebrauch
Sprachwandel
Kognitive Grammatik
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A usage-based perspective on language
  • Rich memory for language : exemplar representation
  • Chunking and degrees of autonomy
  • Analogy and similarity
  • Categorization and the distribution of constructions in corpora
  • Where do constructions come from? : synchrony and diachrony in a usage-based theory
  • Reanalysis or the gradual creation of new constructions? : the English auxiliary
  • Gradient constituency and gradual reanalysis
  • Conventionalization and the local vs. the general : modern English can
  • Exemplars and grammatical meaning : the specific and the general
  • Language as a complex adaptive system : the interaction of cognition, culture and use.

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