Holger Diessel's Books

The Grammar Network

By: Holger Diessel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Grammar Network

By: Holger Diessel

Provides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

309

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1108498817

ISBN 13

9781108498814

The Grammar Network

By: Holger Diessel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Grammar Network

By: Holger Diessel

Provides a dynamic network model of grammar that explains how linguistic structure is shaped by language use.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

309

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1108498817

ISBN 13

9781108498814

The Acquisition of Complex Sentences

By: Holger Diessel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Acquisition of Complex Sentences

By: Holger Diessel

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.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

244

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1139454080

ISBN 13

9781139454087

Demonstratives

Form, function and grammaticalization

By: Holger Diessel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Demonstratives

Form, function and grammaticalization

By: Holger Diessel

All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The first part of the book analyzes demonstratives from a synchronic point of view, examining their morphological structures, semantic features, syntactic functions, and pragmatic uses in spoken and written discourse. The second part concentrates on diachronic issues, in particular on the development of demonstratives into grammatical markers. Across languages demonstratives provide a frequent historical source for definite articles, relative and third person pronouns, nonverbal copulas, sentence connectives, directional preverbs, focus markers, expletives, and many other grammatical markers. The book describes the different mechanisms by which demonstratives grammaticalize and argues that the evolution of grammatical markers from demonstratives is crucially distinct from other cases of grammaticalization.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

217

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

9027298572

ISBN 13

9789027298577

The Constructicon

Taxonomies and Networks

By: Holger Diessel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Constructicon

Taxonomies and Networks

By: Holger Diessel

It is one of the central claims of construction grammar that constructions are organized in some kind of network, commonly referred to as the constructicon. In the classical model of construction grammar, developed by Berkeley linguists in the 1990s, the constructicon is an inheritance network of taxonomically related grammatical patterns. However, recent research in usage-based linguistics has expanded the classical inheritance model into a multidimensional network approach in which constructions are interrelated by multiple types of associations. The multidimensional network approach challenges longstanding assumptions of linguistic research and calls for a reorganization of the constructivist approach. This Element describes how the conception of the constructicon has changed in recent years and elaborates on some central claims of the multidimensional network approach.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

149

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009327836

ISBN 13

9781009327831

Demonstratives

Form, function and grammaticalization

By: Holger Diessel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Demonstratives

Form, function and grammaticalization

By: Holger Diessel

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

217

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

9027298572

ISBN 13

9789027298577

The Acquisition of Complex Sentences

By: Holger Diessel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Acquisition of Complex Sentences

By: Holger Diessel

This comprehensive account of how children acquire complex sentences investigates spontaneous speech in English-speaking children between ages two and five. After examining the acquisition of numerous types of clauses, Holger Diessel argues that the acquisition process is determined by a variety of factors: the frequency of the various complex sentences in the language, the complexity of the emerging constructions, the communicative functions of complex sentences, and the child's social-cognitive development.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

242

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521831938

ISBN 13

9780521831932

Book's by Holger Diessel

The Grammar Network

The Grammar Network

The Grammar Network

The Grammar Network

The Acquisition of Complex Sentences

The Acquisition of Complex Sentences

Demonstratives

Demonstratives

The Constructicon

The Constructicon

Demonstratives

Demonstratives

The Acquisition of Complex Sentences

The Acquisition of Complex Sentences

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email