Frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure /

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A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bybee, Joan L., Hopper, Paul J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; [Great Britain] : J. Benjamins, ©2001.
Series:Typological studies in language ; v. 45.
Subjects:
Frequency (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Fréquence des mots.
Grammaire comparée et générale.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general
Frequentie.
Taalstructuur.
Taalverandering.
Grammaticalisering.
Gramática comparada.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • FREQUENCY AND THE EMERGENCE OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction to frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure; Part I: Patterns of Use; Transitivity, clause structure, and argument structure: Evidence from conversation; Local patterns of subjectivity in person and verb type in American English conversation; Paths to prepositions? A corpus-based study of the acquisition of a lexico-grammatical category; Part II: Word-level frequency effects; Lexical diffusion, lexical frequency, and lexical analysis.

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