Description
| Product ID: | 9780691174266 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Explain Me This |
| Subtitle: | Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions |
| Authors: | Author: Adele E. Goldberg |
| Page Count: | 216 |
| Subjects: | Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Phonetics, phonology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Psycholinguistics, Phonetics, phonology, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Cognition & cognitive psychology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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" |
| Imprint Name: | Princeton University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Princeton University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-02-12 |
