Explain Me This - Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions

Summary

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrainedWe use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language constructions in new ways. Yet native speakers also implicitly know when a creative and easily interpretable formulation-such as "Explain me this" or "She considered to go"

Product details

• Authors: Adele E. Goldberg
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2019
• EAN: 9780691174266
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17426-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Illustrations: 15 b/w illus., 12 tables
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Sociolinguistics, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Phonetics, phonology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics