Frequency of use and the organization of language / / Joan Bybee

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910961610003321
• Autore: Bybee Joan L
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 9786611162917; 9780198041290; 0198041292; 9780195301571; 0195301579; 9780190293840; 0190293845; 9780195301564; 0195301560; 9781281162915; 1281162914; 9781435605435; 1435605438; 9780199867271; 0199867275
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 365 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 410.1/51
• Soggetti: Frequency (Linguistics); Linguistic change
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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 English -- 15. 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: Collects three decades of articles by the linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles argue for the importance of frequency of use as a factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure. This work is useful for researchers in linguistics, particularly in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, phonology, phonetics and historical linguistics.