Screen LibraryLanguage, usage and cognition
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2010. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | ix, 252 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
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9780521851404 (hbk.) 0521851408 (hbk.) 9780521616836 (pbk.) 0521616832 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | H0 |
| CLC: | H0 |
| Call Number: | H0/B993 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-245) and index. 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 "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 time, but in fairly regular ways. This book focuses on the dynamic processes that create languages and give them their structure and variance. It outlines a theory of language that addresses the nature of grammar, taking into account its variance and gradience, and seeks explanation in terms of the rec |