21.1673, Books: Cognitive Science/General Ling/Historical Ling: Bybee

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Subject: 21.1673, Books: Cognitive Science/General Ling/Historical Ling: Bybee

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Date: 05-Apr-2010
From: Daniel Davies < ddavies at cambridge.org >
Subject: Language, Usage and Cognition: Bybee

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From: Daniel Davies [ddavies at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language, Usage and Cognition: Bybee

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Title: Language, Usage and Cognition 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org

Author: Joan Bybee

Hardback: ISBN:  9780521851404 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9780521851404 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 60.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521616836 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 21.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521616836 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 39.99

Abstract:

Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation
at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped
by the same principles; utterances within a language differ from one
another while exhibiting the same structural patterns; languages change
over time, but in fairly regular ways. This book focuses on the dynamic
processes that create languages and give them their structure and variance.
It outlines a theory of language that addresses the nature of grammar,
taking into account its variance and gradience, and seeks explanation in
terms of the recurrent processes that operate in language use. The evidence
is based on the study of large corpora of spoken and written language, what
we know about how languages change, as well as the results of experiments
with language users. The result is an integrated theory of language use and
language change which has implications for cognitive processing and
language evolution. 

1. A usage-based perspective on language; 
2. Rich memory for language: exemplar representation; 
3. Chunking and degrees of autonomy; 
4. Analogy and similarity; 
5. Categorization and the distribution of constructions in corpora; 
6. Where do constructions come from? Synchrony and diachrony in a
usage-based theory; 
7. Grammatical change: reanalysis or the gradual creation of new
constructions?; 
8. Gradient constituency and gradual reanalysis; 
9. Conventionalization and the local vs. the general: modern English can; 
10. Exemplars and grammatical meaning: the specific and the general; 
11. Language as a complex adaptive system: the interaction of cognition,
culture and use. 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics
                     Historical Linguistics

Written In: English  (eng)

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