Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions
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Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions
By (Author) Adele E. Goldberg
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd April 2019
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics
Phonetics, phonology
Grammar, syntax and morphology
Cognition and cognitive psychology
410
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Paperback
216
Width 155mm, Height 235mm
Description
Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We 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"
Reviews
"Outstanding scientific merit . . . With Explain Me This, Goldberg once again leads the field of Construction Grammar into a new and exciting area of research, which is a remarkable achievement."---Martin Hilpert, Lamicus
"An original contribution to the literature on Construction Grammar (CxG) in linguistics."---Cameron Morin, Cercles
Author Bio
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.
