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almafu_9959233216602883
Format:
1 online resource (49 pages) :
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color illustrations, photographs.
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Studies in Language Companion Series, Volume 192
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Intro -- Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- The authors' reflections on Joan -- Edith Bavin -- Soteria Svorou -- Terry Janzen -- Rena Torres Cacoullos -- Earl Brown -- Esther Brown -- K. Aaron Smith -- Damián Wilson -- Clay Beckner -- Dawn Nordquist -- Introduction -- Joan's scholarly contributions in the field of linguistics -- Natural generative phonology -- Child language acquisition -- Morphology -- Grammaticalization -- Usage-based theory -- Linguistics and beyond -- References -- The papers -- Features of some ergative languages that impact on acquisition -- Introduction -- Cues to acquisition -- Ergative alignment -- Acquiring ergative languages: Some examples of influencing factors -- Hindi -- Warlpiri -- Mayan languages -- Conclusion -- References -- Constructional pressures on 'sit' in Modern Greek -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The semantics and morphology of kaθοme 'I sit' -- 3. Coordination and pseudo-coordination -- 4. Why corpus methodology? -- 5. Contextual cues -- 5.1 Semantic types of coordination -- 5.2 Tense and aspect -- 5.3 Semantic types and tense/aspect correlation -- 5.4 Syntactic compactness of the string -- 5.5 Semantic types and their structural traces -- Extended -- Deliberate -- Simultaneous -- Sequential -- Collection -- 5.6 Subject Person/Number -- 5.7 V2 verbs and their frames -- 5.8 Pragmatic confluences -- 5.9 Summary -- 6. Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- References -- know and understand in ASL -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammaticalization in signed languages -- 3. Topic marking and topic constructions in ASL -- 4. Data -- 5. Lexical know and know-topic constructions -- 5.1 KNOW tokens across the ASL conversational corpus -- 5.2 Lexical KNOW -- 5.3 KNOW as a discourse marker -- 5.4 KNOW as a topic marker.
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5.5 Location variation in KNOW tokens -- 6. Lexical understand and understand-topic constructions -- 6.1 Lexical understand -- 6.2 understand-topics -- 7. The emergence of categories in ASL grammar -- 8. Conclusion -- Transcription key -- References -- Traces of demonstrative grammaticalization in Spanish variable subject expression -- 1. Variation as a window into grammaticalization -- 2. Data -- 3. Operationalizing deictic function and other motivations for the use of subject pronouns -- 4. Linguistic conditioning of subject pronouns in early Spanish texts -- 5. The intersection of referent gender and syntactic role of previous mention -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Corpus -- References -- The company that word-boundary sounds keep -- Introduction -- Usage-based models of language -- Spanish /s/ -- The present study -- Data and methods -- Results -- Duration -- Center of gravity -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Cumulative exposure to phonetic reducing environments marks the lexicon -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 Lexicalized effects of words' context histories (FRC) -- 2.2 The dependent variable: Spanish /d-/ lenition -- 3. Data and methods -- 3.1 Speakers -- 3.2 Materials -- 3.3 Recording -- 3.4 Acoustic measurements -- 4. Results -- 4.1 Variation -- 4.2 Variation & -- FRC_approx -- 4.2.1 Relative strength of [d] articulations -- 4.2.2 Relative strength of approximant realizations [ð] -- 4.2.3 Linear modeling of onset variation -- 5. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- A usage-based account for the historical reflexes of ain't in AAE -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Linguistic status of ain't in English overall -- 2.1 Distribution of ain't in AAE -- 3. Method and sources -- 4. Data -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 General -- 6. Analysis -- 6.1 Present-tense ain't -- 6.2 Underdetermined ain't.
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6.3 Undetermination and linguistic complexity -- 7. The divergence hypothesis and usage-based grammar: A conclusion -- Primary resourses -- References -- Gradient conventionalization of the Spanish expression of 'becoming' quedar(se) + ADJ in seven centuries -- Introduction -- Previous examinations of verbs of 'becoming' -- Quedarse + ADJ in eight centuries -- Operationalization in corpus linguistics -- Conventionalized Instances of Constructions (CICs) -- The Conventionalization Index -- Previous usage -- Number of works -- CIC threshold -- Overall normalized frequency -- The case of quedar(se) solo 'to be left alone' -- The case of the quedar(se) alegre / satisfecho 'to be left happy/satisfied' clusters -- Concluding remarks -- References -- The evidence add ups -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Errors of interest, and theoretical background -- 1.1.1 Full affix shifts -- 1.1.2 Double-marked affixes -- 1.1.3 No-marking errors -- 1.2 Predictions, and quantitative corpus metrics -- 2. Task design -- 2.1 Materials and stimulus design -- 2.1.1 Frequency x Mutual Dependency bins -- 2.1.2 Bigram features matched across bins -- 2.1.3 Bigram stimuli and distractors -- 2.2 Participants and experiment setup -- 2.3 Results and discussion: Affix shifts and other affixation errors on bigram stimuli -- 2.3.1 Participant accuracy -- 2.3.2 Overview of errors: Affix shifts, double-marking errors, no-marking errors -- 3. Data and analysis -- 3.1 Post hoc analysis: Examining components of the MD metric -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- References -- look up about -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background -- 2.1 'Phrasal-Prepositional Verb' interpretations -- 2.2 Lexicalization -- 2.3 Usage-based processes -- 2.3.1 Chunking -- 2.3.2 Holistic and shallow processing -- 3. Data collection and method -- 4. Analysis -- 4.1 'Look up about' as a lexical item.
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4.2 Development of Multi-Word 'look up about' -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- About the authors -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-0022-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-6448-1
Language:
English
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