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The volume is a collection of thirteen papers given at the "Third
Syntax of the World's Languages" conference, complemented with four
additional papers as well as an introduction by the editors. All
contributions deal with clause combining, focusing on one or both
of the following two dimensions of analysis: properties of the
clauses involved, types of dependency. The studies are data-driven
and have a cross-linguistic or typological orientation. In addition
to survey papers the volume contains in-depth studies of particular
languages, mostly based on original data collected in recent field
work.
Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that
language is best understood as an association network; however
while the network view of language has had a significant impact on
the study of morphology and lexical semantics, it is only recently
that researchers have taken an explicit network approach to the
study of syntax. This innovative study presents a dynamic network
model of grammar in which all aspects of linguistic structure,
including core concepts of syntax (e.g. phrase structure, word
classes, grammatical relations), are analyzed in terms of
associative connections between different types of linguistic
elements. These associations are shaped by domain-general learning
processes that are operative in language use and sensitive to
frequency of occurrence. Drawing on research from usage-based
linguistics and cognitive psychology, the book provides an overview
of frequency effects in grammar and analyzes these effects within
the framework of a dynamic network model.
Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that
language is best understood as an association network; however
while the network view of language has had a significant impact on
the study of morphology and lexical semantics, it is only recently
that researchers have taken an explicit network approach to the
study of syntax. This innovative study presents a dynamic network
model of grammar in which all aspects of linguistic structure,
including core concepts of syntax (e.g. phrase structure, word
classes, grammatical relations), are analyzed in terms of
associative connections between different types of linguistic
elements. These associations are shaped by domain-general learning
processes that are operative in language use and sensitive to
frequency of occurrence. Drawing on research from usage-based
linguistics and cognitive psychology, the book provides an overview
of frequency effects in grammar and analyzes these effects within
the framework of a dynamic network model.
This book presents a comprehensive study of how children acquire
complex sentences. Drawing on observational data from
English-speaking children aged 2 to 5, Holger Diessel investigates
the acquisition of infinitival and participial complement clauses,
finite complement clauses, finite and nonfinite relative clauses,
adverbial clauses, and coordinate clauses. His investigation shows
that the development of complex sentences originates from simple
non-embedded sentences and that two different developmental
pathways can be distinguished: complex sentences including
complement and relative clauses evolve from simple sentences that
are gradually expanded to multiple-clause constructions, and
complex sentences including adverbial and coordinate clauses
develop from simple sentences that are integrated in a specific
biclausal unit. He argues that the acquisition process is
determined by a variety of factors: the frequency of the various
complex sentences in the ambient language, the semantic and
syntactic complexity of the emerging constructions, the
communicative functions of complex sentences, and the
social-cognitive development of the child.
This book presents a comprehensive study of how children acquire
complex sentences. Drawing on observational data from
English-speaking children aged 2 to 5, Holger Diessel investigates
the acquisition of infinitival and participial complement clauses,
finite complement clauses, finite and nonfinite relative clauses,
adverbial clauses, and coordinate clauses. His investigation shows
that the development of complex sentences originates from simple
non-embedded sentences and that two different developmental
pathways can be distinguished: complex sentences including
complement and relative clauses evolve from simple sentences that
are gradually expanded to multiple-clause constructions, and
complex sentences including adverbial and coordinate clauses
develop from simple sentences that are integrated in a specific
biclausal unit. He argues that the acquisition process is
determined by a variety of factors: the frequency of the various
complex sentences in the ambient language, the semantic and
syntactic complexity of the emerging constructions, the
communicative functions of complex sentences, and the
social-cognitive development of the child.
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