TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bybee,Joan
TI  - Language, Usage and Cognition
SN  - 9780511750526 (ebook)
AV  - P301 .B84 2010
U1  - 415 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Cognitive grammar
KW  - Linguistc change
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Language demonstrates structure while also 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 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 variance. It outlines a theory of language that 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, 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511750526
ER  -