The Grammar Network: How Linguistic Structure Is Shaped by Language Use

Holger Diessel

ISBN 10: 1108712762 / ISBN 13: 9781108712767

Verlag: CAMBRIDGE, 2022

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Zustand: Gut | Seiten: 308 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 38527394/3

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Grammar Network: How Linguistic Structure Is Shaped by Language Use
• Verlag: CAMBRIDGE
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1108712762
• ISBN-13: 9781108712767
• Bindung: Softcover
• Zustand: Gut
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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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Holger Diessel is Professor of English Linguistics at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany. His publications include two monographs, Demonstrastives: Form, Function and Grammaticalization (1999) and The Acquisition of Complex Sentences (Cambridge, 2004), and more than fifty articles in journals and edited volumes.