| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 213
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Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 213.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 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 -- Usage, structure, scientific explanation, and the role of abstraction, by linguists and by language users / Arie Verhagen -- Raising verbs and auxiliaries in a functional theory of grammatical status / Kasper Boye -- The rise of structure: How not to disagree: the emergence of structure from usage / Ronald W. Langacker -- Paradigmatic structure in a usage-based theory of grammaticalisation / Lars Heltoft -- Where do simple clauses come from? / T. Givón -- Structure, usage and variation: Alternative agreement controllers in Danish: usage or structure? / Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen and Mads Poulsen -- Schmidt redux: How systematic is the linguistic system if variation is rampant? / Dirk Geeraerts -- More tiles on the roof: further thoughts on incremental language production / J. Lachlan Mackenzie -- Reconciling structure and usage: on the advantages of a dynamic, dialogic conception of the linguistic sign / Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen -- Methodology: Ten unwarranted assumptions in syntactic argumentation / William Croft. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Structural linguistics.
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Structural linguistics. |
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Language and languages -- Usage.
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Language and languages -- Usage. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Boye, Kasper, 1972-
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Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, 1952-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Language usage and language structure. Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2010 9783110219173 (DLC) 2009051323 (OCoLC)476841613 |
| ISBN |
9783110219180 (electronic book) |
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3110219182 (electronic book) |
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9783110219173 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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3110219174 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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