Language usage and language structure
By: edited by Kasper Boye, Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen.
Contributors: Boye, Kasper, 1972-; Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, 1952-
Series: Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs -- 213
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9783110219173
Subjects: Structural linguistics; Language and languages -- Usage
Description: "The volume addresses an issue hotly debated in current linguistic theory: the relation between language usage and language structure. The contributors represent different theoretical positions. What they have in common is that they recognize structure and usage as non-reducible linguistic phenomena and take seriously the challenge to describe the relation between them." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: USAGE AND STRUCTURE: THE CASE OF CLAUSAL COMPLEMENTATION: What conversational English tells us about the nature of grammar: a critique of Thompson's analysis of object complements / Frederick J. Newmeyer; title: Usage, structure, scientific explanation, and the role of abstraction, by linguists and by language users / Arie Verhagen; title: Raising verbs and auxiliaries in a functional theory of grammatical status / Kasper Boye; title: THE RISE OF STRUCTURE: How not to disagree: the emergence of structure from usage / Ronald W. Langacker; title: Paradigmatic structure in a usage-based theory of grammaticalisation / Lars Heltoft; title: Where do simple clauses come from? / T. Givón; title: STRUCTURE, USAGE, AND VARIATION: Alternative agreement controllers in Danish: usage or structure? / Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen and Mads Poulsen; title: Schmidt redux: How systematic is the linguistic system if variation is rampant? / Dirk Geeraerts; title: More tiles on the roof: further thoughts on incremental language production / J. Laclan Mackenzie; title: Reconciling structure and usage: on the advantages of a dynamic, dialogic conception of the linguistic sign / Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen; title: METHODOLOGY: Ten unwarranted assumptions in syntactic argumentation / William Croft.