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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bybee, Joan L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frequency (Linguistics).

Linguistic change.

Physical Description:

viii, 365 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

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I

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786611162917

9780198041290

0198041292

9780195301571

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9780190293840

0190293845

9780195301564

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9781281162915

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9780199867271

0199867275

OCLC:

437093571