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Understanding Relative Clauses : A Usage-Based View on the Processing of Complex Constructions / Daniel Wiechmann.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ; 268Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (259 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110339383
  • 9783110394023
  • 9783110339581
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425.019 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • P297
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Towards a theoretical framework of the right kind -- 3. Describing English RCCs: Methods and data -- 4. Expanding horizons: RCC in ambient configuration space -- 5. Psycholinguistic integration -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Index
Summary: The book offers a usage-based account of how humans comprehend complex linguistic structures. The author proposes a theory of constructional access, which treats syntactic patterns as complex and abstract signs. In this view, syntactic processing is subject to the very same dynamics as lexical processing and should yield the same type of frequency effects.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Towards a theoretical framework of the right kind -- 3. Describing English RCCs: Methods and data -- 4. Expanding horizons: RCC in ambient configuration space -- 5. Psycholinguistic integration -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Index

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The book offers a usage-based account of how humans comprehend complex linguistic structures. The author proposes a theory of constructional access, which treats syntactic patterns as complex and abstract signs. In this view, syntactic processing is subject to the very same dynamics as lexical processing and should yield the same type of frequency effects.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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