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English Comparative Correlatives - Diachronic and Synchronic Variation at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface (Paperback)
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English Comparative Correlatives - Diachronic and Synchronic Variation at the Lexicon-Syntax Interface (Paperback)
Series: Studies in English Language
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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 (e.g., the more you eat, the fatter you
get). 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.
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