31.1944, Books: The Grammar Network: Diessel

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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:00:50
From: Dan Iredale [diredale at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Grammar Network: Diessel

 


Title: The Grammar Network 
Subtitle: How Linguistic Structure Is Shaped by Language Use 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/grammar-network-how-linguistic-structure-shaped-language-use?format=HB 


Author: Holger Diessel

Electronic: ISBN:  9781108600781 Pages: 306 Price: U.S. $ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108498814 Pages: 306 Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108498814 Pages: 306 Price: U.K. £ 110.00


Abstract:

Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that language is best
understood as an association network; however while the network view of
language has had a significant impact on the study of morphology and lexical
semantics, it is only recently that researchers have taken an explicit network
approach to the study of syntax. This innovative study presents a dynamic
network model of grammar in which all aspects of linguistic structure,
including core concepts of syntax (e.g. phrase structure, word classes,
grammatical relations), are analyzed in terms of associative connections
between different types of linguistic elements. These associations are shaped
by domain-general learning processes that are operative in language use and
sensitive to frequency of occurrence. Drawing on research from usage-based
linguistics and cognitive psychology, the book provides an overview of
frequency effects in grammar and analyzes these effects within the framework
of a dynamic network model.

1. Introduction
Part I. Foundations:
2. Grammar as a network
3. Cognitive processes and language use
Part II. Signs as Networks:
4. The taxonomic network
5. Sequential relations
6. Symbolic relations
Part III. Filler-Slot Relations:
7. Argument structure and linguistic productivity
8. A dynamic network model of parts of speech
9. Phrase structure
Part IV. Constructional Relations:
10. Construction families
11. Encoding asymmetries of grammatical categories
12. Conclusion.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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