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Outlines a theory of language use and language change, focusing on the processes that give languages their structure and variance.
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Language, Usage and Cognition
2010, Cambridge University Press
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0511744315 9780511744310
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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.
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.
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