English Comparative Correlatives: Diachronic and Synchronic Variation at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface

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One of the most intriguing features of languages is that speakers can produce novel grammatical utterances that they have never heard before. Consequently, most linguists agree that the mental grammars of speakers are complex systems that must be more abstract than the input they are exposed to. Yet, linguists differ as to how general and abstract speakers' mental representations have to be to allow this grammatical creativity. This book addresses this issue by empirically investigating one specific construction, English comparative correlatives . Drawing on authentic corpus data from Old English to Present-day English varieties around the world, it shows how input frequency and domain-general cognitive principles affect the complex mental network of constructions that underlies speakers' linguistic behaviour. This pioneering and original study will be of interest to scholars and students of English syntax and English historical linguistics.

Pages: 276

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: May 02, 2019

ISBN: 1108477216

ISBN 13: 9781108477215

English Comparative Correlatives: Diachronic and Synchronic Variation at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface

Thomas Hoffmann

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Pages: 276

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: May 02, 2019

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