Grammar Network - How Linguistic Structure Is Shaped By Language Use

Provides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.

List of contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Foundations: 2. Grammar as a network; 3. Cognitive processes and language use; Part II. Signs as Networks: 4. The taxonomic network; 5. Sequential relations; 6. Symbolic relations; Part III. Filler-Slot Relations: 7. Argument structure and linguistic productivity; 8. A dynamic network model of parts of speech; 9. Phrase structure; Part IV. Constructional Relations: 10. Construction families; 11. Encoding asymmetries of grammatical categories; 12. Conclusion.

About the author

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.

Summary

An innovative study of grammar that explains how speakers' knowledge of grammar is emergent from domain-general processes of communication and cognition. Written in an accessible style and illustrated by numerous diagrams and examples, the book will appeal to researchers and students of linguistics, psycholinguistics and cognitive science.

Product details

• Authors: Holger Diessel, Holger (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Diessel, Diessel Holger
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781108498814
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49881-4
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Grammar, syntax and morphology