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Explain Me This : Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions /
Our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained, we use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language constructions in new ways. Yet native speakers also implicitly know when a creative and easily interpretable formulation-such as...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Word Meanings
- Chapter 3. Constructions as Invitations to Form Categories
- Chapter 4. Creativity: Coverage Is Key
- Chapter 5. Competition: Statistical Preemption
- Chapter 6. Age and Accessibility Effects
- Chapter 7. The Roads Not Taken
- Chapter 8. Where We Are and What Lies Ahead
- References
- Index