Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee

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Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language Editorial page Title page LCC data Table of contents Acknowledgments The authors’ reflections on Joan Edith Bavin Soteria Svorou Terry Janzen Rena Torres Cacoullos Earl Brown Esther Brown K. Aaron Smith Damián Wilson Clay Beckner Dawn Nordquist Introduction Joan’s scholarly contributions in the field of linguistics Natural generative phonology Child language acquisition Morphology Grammaticalization Usage-based theory Linguistics and beyond References The papers Features of some ergative languages that impact on acquisition Introduction Cues to acquisition Ergative alignment Acquiring ergative languages: Some examples of influencing factors Hindi Warlpiri Mayan languages Conclusion References Constructional pressures on ‘sit’ in Modern Greek 1. Introduction 2. The semantics and morphology of kaθοme ‘I sit’ 3. Coordination and pseudo-coordination 4. Why corpus methodology? 5. Contextual cues 5.1 Semantic types of coordination 5.2 Tense and aspect 5.3 Semantic types and tense/aspect correlation 5.4 Syntactic compactness of the string 5.5 Semantic types and their structural traces Extended Deliberate Simultaneous Sequential Collection 5.6 Subject Person/Number 5.7 V2 verbs and their frames 5.8 Pragmatic confluences 5.9 Summary 6. Conclusion Abbreviations References know and understand in ASL 1. Introduction 2. Grammaticalization in signed languages 3. Topic marking and topic constructions in ASL 4. Data 5. Lexical know and know-topic constructions 5.1 KNOW tokens across the ASL conversational corpus 5.2 Lexical KNOW 5.3 KNOW as a discourse marker 5.4 KNOW as a topic marker 5.5 Location variation in KNOW tokens 6. Lexical understand and understand-topic constructions 6.1 Lexical understand 6.2 understand-topics 7. The emergence of categories in ASL grammar 8. Conclusion Transcription key References Traces of demonstrative grammaticalization in Spanish variable subject expression 1. Variation as a window into grammaticalization 2. Data 3. Operationalizing deictic function and other motivations for the use of subject pronouns 4. Linguistic conditioning of subject pronouns in early Spanish texts 5. The intersection of referent gender and syntactic role of previous mention 6. Conclusion Acknowledgements Corpus References The company that word-boundary sounds keep Introduction Usage-based models of language Spanish /s/ The present study Data and methods Results Duration Center of gravity Discussion Conclusions References Cumulative exposure to phonetic reducing environments marks the lexicon 1. Introduction 2. Background 2.1 Lexicalized effects of words’ context histories (FRC) 2.2 The dependent variable: Spanish /d-/ lenition 3. Data and methods 3.1 Speakers 3.2 Materials 3.3 Recording 3.4 Acoustic measurements 4. Results 4.1 Variation 4.2 Variation & FRC_approx 4.2.1 Relative strength of [d] articulations 4.2.2 Relative strength of approximant realizations [ð] 4.2.3 Linear modeling of onset variation 5. Discussion Acknowledgements References A usage-based account for the historical reflexes of ain’t in AAE 1. Introduction 2. Linguistic status of ain’t in English overall 2.1 Distribution of ain’t in AAE 3. Method and sources 4. Data 5. Discussion 5.1 General 6. Analysis 6.1 Present-tense ain’t 6.2 Underdetermined ain’t 6.3 Undetermination and linguistic complexity 7. The divergence hypothesis and usage-based grammar: A conclusion Primary resourses References Gradient conventionalization of the Spanish ­expression of ‘becoming’ quedar(se) + ADJ in seven centuries Introduction Previous examinations of verbs of ‘becoming’ Quedarse + ADJ in eight centuries Operationalization in corpus linguistics Conventionalized Instances of Constructions (CICs) The Conventionalization Index Previous usage Number of works CIC threshold Overall normalized frequency The case of quedar(se) solo ‘to be left alone’ The case of the quedar(se) alegre / satisfecho ‘to be left happy/satisfied’ clusters Concluding remarks References The evidence add ups 1. Introduction 1.1 Errors of interest, and theoretical background 1.1.1 Full affix shifts 1.1.2 Double-marked affixes 1.1.3 No-marking errors 1.2 Predictions, and quantitative corpus metrics 2. Task design 2.1 Materials and stimulus design 2.1.1 Frequency x Mutual Dependency bins 2.1.2 Bigram features matched across bins 2.1.3 Bigram stimuli and distractors 2.2 Participants and experiment setup 2.3 Results and discussion: Affix shifts and other affixation errors on bigram stimuli 2.3.1 Participant accuracy 2.3.2 Overview of errors: Affix shifts, double-marking errors, no-marking errors 3. Data and analysis 3.1 Post hoc analysis: Examining components of the MD metric 4. Discussion and conclusion References look up about 1. Introduction 2. Background 2.1 ‘Phrasal-Prepositional Verb’ interpretations 2.2 Lexicalization 2.3 Usage-based processes 2.3.1 Chunking 2.3.2 Holistic and shallow processing 3. Data collection and method 4. Analysis 4.1 ‘Look up about’ as a lexical item 4.2 Development of Multi-Word ‘look up about’ 5. Conclusions Acknowledgements References About the authors Index