Language, usage and cognition - Bybee, Joan L. (Cambridge, [England] Cambridge University Press, 2010)
A usage-based perspective on language -- Rich memory for language : exemplar representation -- Chunking and degrees of autonomy -- Analogy and similarity -- Categorization and the distribution of constructions in corpora -- Where do constructions come from? : synchrony and diachrony in a usage-based theory -- Reanalysis or the gradual creation of new constructions? : the English auxiliary -- Gradient constituency and gradual reanalysis -- Conventionalization and the local vs. the general : modern English can -- Exemplars and grammatical meaning : the specific and the general -- Language as a complex adaptive system : the interaction of cognition, culture and use.
"4th printing 2012"--Title page verso.
Keywords: Language and languages -- Usage; Cognitive grammar; Linguistic change