Frequency of use and the organization of language [[electronic resource] /] / Joan Bybee

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465360803321
• Autore: Bybee Joan L
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0-19-029384-5; 9786611162917; 1-4356-0543-8; 0-19-804129-2; 0-19-530157-9; 1-281-16291-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• Disciplina: 410.1/51
• Soggetti: Frequency (Linguistics); Linguistic change; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Part I: Background and Current Context; Introduction to Part I; 1. Introduction; 2. Word Frequency in Lexical Diffusion and the Source of Morphophonological Change; Part II: Frequency as a Determinant of Morphological Structure; Introduction to Part II; 3. Explanation in Morphophonemics: Changes in Provençal and Spanish Preterite Forms; 4. On Lexical and Morphological Conditioning of Alternations: A Nonce-Probe Experiment with Spanish Verbs; 5. Rules and Schemas in the Development and Use of the English Past Tense; 6. Morphological Classes as Natural Categories; 7. Are Stem Changes as Natural as Affixes?8. Regular Morphology and the Lexicon; Part III: Phonetic Change: Frequency in Context; Introduction to Part III; 9. The Phonology of the Lexicon: Evidence from Lexical Diffusion; 10. Lexicalization of Sound Change and Alternating Environments; 11. Word Frequency and Context of Use in the Lexical Diffusion of Phonetically Conditioned Sound Change; Part IV: Frequency Effects in Mophosyntax; Introduction to Part IV; 12. Three Frequency ; Effects in Syntax; 13. The Emergent Lexicon; 14. The Effect of Usage on Degrees of Constituency: The Reduction of Don't in English15. Sequentiality as the Basis of Constituent Structure; 16. Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: The volume collects three decades of articles by the distinguished linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles essentially argue for the importance of frequency of use as a factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure. Her work has been very influential for a broad range of researchers in linguistics, particularly in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, phonology, phonetics and historical linguistics.