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Explain Me This

Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions

By: Adele E. Goldberg

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Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions

By: Adele E. Goldberg

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language constructions in new ways. Yet native speakers also implicitly know when a creative and easily interpretable formulation—such as “Explain me this” or “She considered to go”—doesn’t sound quite right. In this incisive book, Adele Goldberg explores how these creative but constrained language skills emerge from a combination of general cognitive mechanisms and experience. Shedding critical light on an enduring linguistic paradox, Goldberg demonstrates how words and abstract constructions are generalized and constrained in the same ways. When learning language, we record partially abstracted tokens of language within the high-dimensional conceptual space that is used when we speak or listen. Our implicit knowledge of language includes dimensions related to form, function, and social context. At the same time, abstract memory traces of linguistic usage-events cluster together on a subset of dimensions, with overlapping aspects strengthened via repetition. In this way, dynamic categories that correspond to words and abstract constructions emerge from partially overlapping memory traces, and as a result, distinct words and constructions compete with one another each time we select them to express our intended messages. While much of the research on this puzzle has favored semantic or functional explanations over statistical ones, Goldberg’s approach stresses that both the functional and statistical aspects of constructions emerge from the same learning mechanisms.

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Princeton University Press

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Constructions at Work

The Nature of Generalization in Language

By: Adele E. Goldberg

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The Nature of Generalization in Language

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Includes selected classic and contemporary papers in four areas, this text introduces each field, providing technical background for the non-specialist and explaining the underlying connections across the disciplines.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199268517

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The Nature of Generalization in Language

By: Adele E. Goldberg

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The Nature of Generalization in Language

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Explain Me This

Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions

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Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions

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Constructions

A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure

By: Adele E. Goldberg

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Constructions

A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure

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Drawing on work in linguistics, language acquisition, and computer science, Adele E. Goldberg proposes that grammatical constructions play a central role in the relation between the form and meaning of simple sentences. She demonstrates that the syntactic patterns associated with simple sentences are imbued with meaning—that the constructions themselves carry meaning independently of the words in a sentence. Goldberg provides a comprehensive account of the relation between verbs and constructions, offering ways to relate verb and constructional meaning, and to capture relations among constructions and generalizations over constructions. Prototypes, frame semantics, and metaphor are shown to play crucial roles. In addition, Goldberg presents specific analyses of several constructions, including the ditransitive and the resultative constructions, revealing systematic semantic generalizations. Through a comparison with other current approaches to argument structure phenomena, this book narrows the gap between generative and cognitive theories of language.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226300862

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9780226300863

Constructions

A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure

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A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure

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