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1 online resource |
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Studies in language companion series (SLCS) ; volume 192 |
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Studies in language companion series ; v. 192.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- The authors' reflections on Joan -- Introduction / K. Aaron Smith & Dawn Nordquist -- Features of some ergative languages that impact on acquisition / Edith L. Bavin -- Constructional pressures on 'sit' in modern Greek / Soteria Svorou -- Know and understand in ASL : a usage-based study of grammaticalized topic constructions / Terry Janzen -- Traces of demonstrative grammaticalization in Spanish variable subject expression : ella 'she' vs. él 'he' / Rena Torres Cacoullos -- The company that word-boundary sounds keep : the effect of contextual ratio frequency on word-final 's' in a sample of Mexican Spanish / Earl K. Brown -- Cumulative exposure to phonetic reducing environments marks the lexicon : Spanish 'd-' words spoken in isolation / Esther L. Brown -- A usage-based account for the historical reflexes of ain't in AAE / K. Aaron Smith -- Gradient conventionalization of the Spanish expression of 'becoming' quedar(se) + ADJ in seven centuries / Damián Vergara Wilson -- The evidence add ups : an affix shift study of prefabs / Clay Beckner -- Look up about : usage-based processes in lexicalization / Dawn Nordquist -- About the authors -- Index |
| Summary |
The contributions to this volume honor Joan Bybee's 2005 LSA Presidential address "Grammar is Usage and Usage is Grammar," as a cumulative articulation of Professor Bybee's long and influential career in linguistics. The volume begins with a functional examination of child language acquisition of ergative languages. The next three contributions successively investigate the grammaticalization of Greek postural verbs, Spanish third person pronouns, and American Sign Language topicalization constructions. The two following papers report on usage-based phonological studies of Spanish /s/ and /d/, respectively. The book concludes with four papers that address usage-based effects concerning the grammatical status of ain't in African American English, Spanish verbs of "becoming", and English lexis and prefabs |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Functionalism (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Usage
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Discourse analysis.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
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Discourse analysis
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Functionalism (Linguistics)
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, K. Aaron (Kelly Aaron), 1965- editor.
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Nordquist, Dawn, editor
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Bybee, Joan L., honouree
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| LC no. |
2017054662 |
| ISBN |
9789027264480 |
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9027264481 |
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