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Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage (Hardcover)
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Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage (Hardcover)
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This volume examines the conflicting factors that shape the content
and form of grammatical rules in language usage. Speakers and
addressees need to contend with these rules when expressing
themselves and when trying to comprehend messages. For example,
there are on-going competitions between the speaker's interests and
the addressee's needs, or between constraints imposed by grammar
and those imposed by online processing. These competitions
influence a wide variety of systems, including case marking,
agreement and word order, politeness forms, lexical choices, and
the position of relative clauses. Chapters in the book analyse
grammar and usage in adult language as well as first and second
language acquisition, and the motivations that drive historical
change. Several of the chapters seek explanations for the
competitions involved, based on earlier accounts including the
Competition Model, Natural Morphology, the functional-typological
tradition, and Optimality Theory. The book will be of interest to
linguists from a wide variety of backgrounds, particularly those
interested in psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, philosophy
of language, and language acquisition, from advanced undergraduate
level upwards.
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