Transitivity, clause structure, and argument structure

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction to frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure 1
5. Part I: Patterns of Use
6. Transitivity, clause structure, and argument structure 27
7. Local patterns of subjectivity in person and verb type in American English coversation 61
8. Paths to prepositions? A corpus-based study of the acquisition of a lexico-grammatical category 91
9. Part II: Word-level frequency effects
10. Lexical diffusion, lexical frequency, and lexical analysis 123
11. Exemplar dynamics 137
12. Emergent phonotactic generalizations in English and Arabic 159
13. Ambiguity and frequency effects in regular verb inflection 181
14. Frequency, regularity and the paradigm 201
15. Part III: Phrases and constructions
16. Probabilistic relations between words 229
17. Frequency effects and word-boundary palatization in English 255
18. The role of frequency in the realization of English that 281
19. Frequency, iconicity, categorization 309
20. Frequency effects on French liaison 337
21. The role of frequency in the specialization of the English anterior 361
22. Hypercorrect pronoun case in English? Cognitive processes that account for pronoun usage 383
23. Variability, frequency, and productivity in the irrealis domain of French 405
24. Part IV: General
25. Familiarity, information flow, and linguistic form 431
26. Emergentist approaches to language 449
27. Inflationary effects in language and elsewhere 471
28. Subject index 481
29. Name index 487