Usage-based linguistics -- Origins of language Words -- Early syntactic constructions -- Abstract syntactic constructions -- Nominal and clausal constructions -- Complex constructions and discourse -- Biological, cultural, and ontogenetic processes -- Toward a psychology of language acquisition
Summary
The author presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition, based on evidence that children possess a linguistic ability interwoven with other cognitive abilities, rather than a self-contained 'language instinct'
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-371) and index
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