Incipient Productivity : a Construction-Based Approach to Linguistic Creativity.

How do speakers vary established patterns of language use and adapt them to novel contexts of application? This study presents a usage-based approach to linguistic creativity: combining detailed qualitative with large-scale quantitative analyses of corpus data, it traces the emergence of partial pro...

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Main Author: Zeschel, Arne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2012
Series:Cognitive linguistics research ; 49.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central