@book{publication-579,
  year = {2010},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  isbn = {978-0-52161-683-6},
  url = {http://frcaq.com/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521616836\&amp;ss=fro},
  address = {Cambridge},
  title = {Language, use and cognition},
  author = {Joan Bybee},
  abstract = {Language demonstrates structure while at the same time showing considerable variation at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; utterances within a language differ from one another while still exhibiting the same structural patterns; languages change over time, but in fairly regular ways. This book focuses on the dynamic processes that create languages and give them their structure and their variance. Joan Bybee outlines a theory of language that directly addresses the nature of grammar, taking into account its variance and gradience, and seeks explanation in terms of the recurrent processes that operate in language use. The evidence is based on the study of large corpora of spoken and written language, and what we know about how languages change, as well as the results of experiments with language users. The result is an integrated theory of language use and language change which has implications for cognitive processing and language evolution.

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Contents
List of figures
	vi
List of tables
	vii
Acknowledgements
	ix
1     A usage-based perspective on language
	1
2     Rich memory for language: exemplar representation
	14
3     Chunking and degrees of autonomy
	33
4     Analogy and similarity
	57
5     Categorization and the distribution of constructions in corpora
	76
6     Where do constructions come from? Synchrony and diachrony in a usage-based theory
	105
7     Reanalysis or the gradual creation of new categories? The English Auxiliary
	120
8     Gradient constituency and gradual reanalysis
	136
9     Conventionalization and the local vs. the general: Modern English can
	151
10    Exemplars and grammatical meaning: the specific and the general
	165
11    Language as a complex adaptive system: the interaction of cognition, culture and use
	194
Notes
	222
Bibliography
	226
Index
	246},
  keywords = {Kognition,Sprachänderung,Sprachverwendung,Sprachevolution,Sprachwissenschaft,Sprachübergreifend},
}
