Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 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 Reanalysis or the gradual creation of new categories? The English Auxiliary
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
List of tables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 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 Reanalysis or the gradual creation of new categories? The English Auxiliary
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Chapter
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- Language, Usage and Cognition , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010