Adele E. Goldberg

Broschiertes Buch

Explain Me This

Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions

Beschreibung

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"

Autor

Adele E. Goldberg is professor of psychology at Princeton University. She is the author of Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language and Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780691174266
• ISBN-10: 0691174261
• Artikelnr.: 52611150