30.2944, Books: English Comparative Correlatives: Hoffman

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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 20:14:39
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: English Comparative Correlatives: Hoffman

 


Title: English Comparative Correlatives 
Subtitle: Diachronic and Synchronic Variation at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/english-comparative-correlatives-diachronic-and-synchronic-variation-lexicon-syntax-interface?format=HB 


Author: Thomas Hoffmann

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108477215 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108477215 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108477215 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

One of the most intriguing features of languages is that speakers can produce
novel grammatical utterances that they have never heard before. Consequently,
most linguists agree that the mental grammars of speakers are complex systems
that must be more abstract than the input they are exposed to. Yet, linguists
differ as to how general and abstract speakers' mental representations have to
be to allow this grammatical creativity. This book addresses this issue by
empirically investigating one specific construction, English comparative
correlatives (e.g., the more you eat, the fatter you get). Drawing on
authentic corpus data from Old English to Present-day English varieties around
the world, it shows how input frequency and domain-general cognitive
principles affect the complex mental network of constructions that underlies
speakers' linguistic behaviour. This pioneering and original study will be of
interest to scholars and students of English syntax and English historical
linguistics.
   
   
1. Introduction; 2. Previous research; 3. The diachronic evolution of English
CCs: a constructionist account; 4. Synchronic properties of the standard
British and American English CC construction network; 5. A contrastive view:
German versus English comparative correlatives; 6. Variation and mental
grammars: the view from World Englishes; Conclusion: the role of
constructional networks.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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