Language, Usage and Cognition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780511744310
Description: Outlines a theory of language use and language change, focusing on the processes that give languages their structure and variance.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 A usage-based perspective on language; 2 Rich memory for language: exemplar representation; 3 Chunking and degrees of autonomy; 4 Analogy and similarity; 5 Categorization and the distribution of constructions in corpora; 6 Where do constructions come from? Synchrony and diachrony in a usage-based theory; 7 Reanalysis or the gradual creation of new categories? The English Auxiliary; 8 Gradient constituency and gradual reanalysis; 9 Conventionalization and the local vs. the general: Modern English can.; title: 10 Exemplars and grammatical meaning: the specific and the general11 Language as a complex adaptive system: the interaction of cognition, culture and use; Notes; Bibliography; Index.