Description
| Product ID: | 9781108712767 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Grammar Network |
| Subtitle: | How Linguistic Structure Is Shaped by Language Use |
| Authors: | Author: Holger Diessel |
| Page Count: | 307 |
| Subjects: | Grammar, syntax and morphology, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Cognition & cognitive psychology |
| Description: | 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. Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that language is best understood as an association network; however while the network view of language has had a significant impact on the study of morphology and lexical semantics, it is only recently that researchers have taken an explicit network approach to the study of syntax. This innovative study presents a dynamic network model of grammar in which all aspects of linguistic structure, including core concepts of syntax (e.g. phrase structure, word classes, grammatical relations), are analyzed in terms of associative connections between different types of linguistic elements. These associations are shaped by domain-general learning processes that are operative in language use and sensitive to frequency of occurrence. Drawing on research from usage-based linguistics and cognitive psychology, the book provides an overview of frequency effects in grammar and analyzes these effects within the framework of a dynamic network model. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-06-09 |
