Language, usage and cognition / Joan Bybee.
"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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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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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.