Understanding Relative Clauses : : A Usage-Based View on the Processing of Complex Constructions / / Daniel Wiechmann.

The book offers a usage-based account of how humans comprehend complex linguistic structures. The author proposes a theory of constructional access, which treats syntactic patterns as complex and abstract signs. In this view, syntactic processing is subject to the very same dynamics as lexical proce...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]
©2015
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 268
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Physical Description:1 online resource (259 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Towards a theoretical framework of the right kind
  • 3. Describing English RCCs: Methods and data
  • 4. Expanding horizons: RCC in ambient configuration space
  • 5. Psycholinguistic integration
  • 6. Conclusion
  • References
  • Index