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Functionalist and usage-based approaches to the study of language : in honor of Joan L. Bybee /

The contributions to this volume honor Joan Bybee's 2005 LSA Presidential address "Grammar is Usage and Usage is Grammar," as a cumulative articulation of Professor Bybee's long and influential career in linguistics. The volume begins with a functional examination of child langua...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smith, K. Aaron (Kelly Aaron), 1965- (Editor ), Nordquist, Dawn (Editor ), Bybee, Joan L. (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Colección:Studies in language companion series ; v. 192.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • The authors' reflections on Joan
  • Introduction / K. Aaron Smith & Dawn Nordquist
  • Features of some ergative languages that impact on acquisition / Edith L. Bavin
  • Constructional pressures on 'sit' in modern Greek / Soteria Svorou
  • Know and understand in ASL : a usage-based study of grammaticalized topic constructions / Terry Janzen
  • Traces of demonstrative grammaticalization in Spanish variable subject expression : ella 'she' vs. él 'he' / Rena Torres Cacoullos
  • The company that word-boundary sounds keep : the effect of contextual ratio frequency on word-final 's' in a sample of Mexican Spanish / Earl K. Brown
  • Cumulative exposure to phonetic reducing environments marks the lexicon : Spanish 'd-' words spoken in isolation / Esther L. Brown
  • A usage-based account for the historical reflexes of ain't in AAE / K. Aaron Smith
  • Gradient conventionalization of the Spanish expression of 'becoming' quedar(se) + ADJ in seven centuries / Damián Vergara Wilson
  • The evidence add ups : an affix shift study of prefabs / Clay Beckner
  • Look up about : usage-based processes in lexicalization / Dawn Nordquist
  • About the authors
  • Index.