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Understanding Relative Clauses: A Usage-Based View on the Processing of Complex Constructions

By Daniel Wiechmann

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2014
ISBN
3110339382, 9783110339383
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3897851 bytes)
Series
Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs
Pages
259\272
Time added
2015-03-21 07:29:23
Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Синтаксис

Description

The book offers a usage-based account of how humans comprehend complex linguistic structures. The author proposes a theory of constructional access, which treats syntactic patterns as complex and abstract signs. In this view, syntactic processing is subject to the very same dynamics as lexical processing and should yield the same type of frequency effects.

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