Frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure /:

A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used i...

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Weitere Verfasser: Bybee, Joan L., Hopper, Paul J.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; [Great Britain] : J. Benjamins, ©2001.
Schriftenreihe:Typological studies in language ; v. 45.
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Zusammenfassung:A mainstay of functional linguistics has been the claim that linguistic elements and patterns that are frequently used in discourse become conventionalized as grammar. This book addresses the two issues that are basic to this claim: first, the question of what types of elements are frequently used in discourse and second, the question of how frequency of use affects cognitive representations. Reporting on evidence from natural conversation, diachronic change, variability, child language acquisition and psycholinguistic experimentation the original articles in this book support two major princi.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 492 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9789027298034
9027298033
9781588110275
1588110273
9781588110282
1588110281
1282162373
9781282162372
9786612162374
6612162376
ISSN:0167-7373 ;

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