Language usage and language structure / edited by Kasper Boye, Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen.

Other author Boye, Kasper, 1972-
Other author Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth, 1952-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerlin ; New York : De Gruyter Mouton,
Descriptionxiv, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesTrends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; 213
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs 213. ^A512512
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.
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LCCN 2009051323
ISBN9783110219173 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN3110219174 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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