Language Usage and Language Structure /

Language Usage and Language Structure / / ed. by Kasper Boye, Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen.

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During most of the 20th century, the classical Saussurean distinction between language usage and language structure remained untranscendable in much linguistic theory. The dominant view, propagated in particular by generative grammar, was that there are structural facts and usage facts, and that in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Boye, Kasper,
Croft, William,
Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth,
Geeraerts, Dirk,
Givón, T.,
Heltoft, Lars,
Lachlan Mackenzie, J.,
Langacker, Ronald W.,
Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt,
Newmeyer, Frederick J.,
Poulsen, Mads,
Verhagen, Arie,
HerausgeberIn:
Boye, Kasper,
Engberg-Pedersen, Elisabeth,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 213
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Physical Description:1 online resource (354 p.) :; num. figs. and tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Usage and structure: The case of clausal complementation
  • What conversational English tells us about the nature of grammar:A critique of Thompson’s analysis of object complements
  • Usage, structure, scientific explanation, and the role of abstraction, by linguists and by language users
  • Raising verbs and auxiliaries in a functional theory of grammatical status
  • The rise of structure
  • How not to disagree: The emergence of structure from usage
  • Paradigmatic structure in a usage-based theory of grammaticalisation
  • Where do simple clauses come from?
  • Structure, usage and variation
  • Alternative agreement controllers in Danish: Usage or structure?
  • Schmidt redux: How systematic is the linguistic system if variation is rampant?
  • More tiles on the roof: Further thoughts on incremental language production
  • Reconciling structure and usage: On the advantages of a dynamic, dialogic conception of the linguistic sign
  • Methodology
  • Ten unwarranted assumptions in syntactic argumentation
  • Backmatter

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