Constructions at Work : The Nature of Generalization in Language
"This book investigates the nature of generalization in language and examines how language is known by adults and acquired by children. It looks at how and why constructions are learned, the relation between their forms and functions, and how cross-linguistic and language-internal generalizatio...
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| Format: | Livre papier |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press
C 2006.
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| Col·lecció: | Oxford Linguistics
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Autre tirage : 2008 |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
| Variante du titre: | The Nature of Generalization in Language |
Taula de continguts:
- PART I: CONSTRUCTIONS.
- 1: Overview.
- 2: Surface generalizations.
- 3: Item-specific knowledge and generalizations.
- PART II: LEARNING GENERALIZATIONS.
- 4: How argument structure constructions are learned.
- 5: How generalizations are constrained.
- 6: Why generalizations are learned.
- PART III: EXPLAINING GENERALIZATIONS.
- 7: Island constraints and scope.
- 8: Grammatical categorization: subject-auxiliary inversion.
- 9: Cross-linguistic generalizations in argument realization.
- 10: Variations on a constructionist theme.
- 11: Conclusion.
- REFERENCES.
- INDEX