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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bybee, Joan L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.