Incipient Productivity : a Construction-Based Approach to Linguistic Creativity.

How do speakers vary established patterns of language use and adapt them to novel contexts of application? This study presents a usage-based approach to linguistic creativity: combining detailed qualitative with large-scale quantitative analyses of corpus data, it traces the emergence of partial pro...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Zeschel, Arne
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012.
Series:	Cognitive linguistics research ; 49.
Subjects:	Creativity (Linguistics) Generative grammar. Grammar, Comparative and general > Coordinate constructions.