The mental corpus: how language is represented in the mind
This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge. John Taylor challenges the conventional notion that a language can be understood in terms of the interaction of syntax with a lexicon, the second listing the words and the first the rules for combining them. He p...
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| Summary: | This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge. John Taylor challenges the conventional notion that a language can be understood in terms of the interaction of syntax with a lexicon, the second listing the words and the first the rules for combining them. He proposes instead that an individual's knowledge of a language can be thought of as a repository of memories of linguistic experience. Each encounter with the language, he argues, leaves a trace in our minds. We record the forms of utterances, the concepts and interpretations associated with them, and the contexts in which they were heard or seen. Features of incoming language - a word, a phrase, a meaning, a voice quality, an interactional situation - resonate with items already stored. Similarities between stored items give rise to generalizations of varying degrees of certainty and precision, which in turn are able to sanction new and innovative expressions.0 |
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1. Conceptualizing language i
E-language and I-language 4
Studying E-language—not such a simple matter! 9
Corpora and their representativeness 13
The BNC and linguistic experience 15
The World Wide Web: a “fabulous linguists playground” 17
2. The dictionary and the grammar book: the generative model
of linguistic knowledge 19
A rule-based approach to linguistic knowledge 22
Subcategorization 24
Selecţionai restrictions 26
Agreement features 26
The generative model in relation to data 26
Explain me 28
The lexicon 32
Compounds 35
Derived words 36
Syntactic constructions 37
Compositionality 40
In conclusion 42
3. Words and their behaviour 44
Lexical categories 45
Unique distribution of words 48
Laps and bosoms 51
Fun 54
Pluralia tantum 57
Much 58
Verbs and their subcategorization 62
Zero-complements 64
Defective verbs 66
In conclusion 68
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4. Idioms 69
Semantic idioms 72
Idiom variability 75
Allusions to idioms 80
Syntactic idioms 83
the more the merrier 84
him write a novel!? 86
what about me? 87
that idiot of a man 87
that 11 teach you! 90
what’s it doing raining? 91
Phrasal idioms 94
Minor (ir)regularities 97
5. Speaking idiomatically 100
Language and context of use 102
Words and collocations 105
Learning to speak idiomatically 112
A case-study: X-minded 114
6. Constructions 120
Cognitive Grammar: some basic concepts 120
Constructions 124
Constructions or rules? 127
Applying a rule: What kind of process is it? 133
Constructions and the autonomy of syntax 13b
Collostructional analysis 140
Acquisition 142
Constructions all the way up? 143
7. Frequency 146
Chomsky on frequency: the Dayton Ohio argument 149
Verb complements 152
Words 153
Collocations (again) 158
Phonology 161
Ambiguity resolution and garden path sentences 166
Productivity 173
Subjective estimates of frequency 175
In conclusion 178
Contents
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8. Skewed frequencies as a design feature of language 179
Skewed frequencies as an emergent property of language 180
Markedness 182
Categorization 185
Skewed frequency as a design feature of language 194
In conclusion 194
9. Learning from input 196
Phoneme acquisition 196
Statistical learning 202
Do listeners notice input features? 206
The recency effect 208
Recency and micro֊learning 212
In conclusion 216
10. Polysemy 219
How many meanings? 220
Opening and cutting; lumping and splitting 223
Relatedness of meanings 228
A single linguistic form? 230
The story of over 233
Polysemy and idealized cognitive models of language 238
Word meanings 241
In conclusion 243
11. Creativity and innovation 245
Creativity 246
Creativity and innovation 249
Language change 250
being busy 252
explain me 256
Idioms and their usage range: the case of all over 257
In conclusion 262
12. Blending 263
Blending theory 263
Word blending 266
Phrasal blending 269
keeping an eye out 272
ever since I can remember 272
time and (time) again 273
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being as how 273
I think that’s fair to say 274
the most beautifulest girl in the world 273
explain me this 276
The blending of words and constructions 276
In conclusion 278
The mental corpus 280
References 288
Subject index 313
Index of names 316
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