Explain Me This
Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions
$72.28
- Paperback
210 pages
- Release Date
22 April 2019
Summary
Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrainedWe 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 combinat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691174266 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691174261 |
| Author: | Adele E. Goldberg |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 210 |
| Release Date: | 22 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 155mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“Outstanding scientific merit … With Explain Me This, Goldberg once again leads the field of Construction Grammar into a new and exciting area of research, which is a remarkable achievement.”—Martin Hilpert, Lamicus
“An original contribution to the literature on Construction Grammar (CxG) in linguistics.”—Cameron Morin, Cercles
Adele E. Goldberg
Adele E. Goldberg is professor of psychology at Princeton University. She is the author of Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language and Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure.
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