Ten unwarranted assumptions in syntactic argumentation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction VII
4. Usage and structure: The case of clausal complementation
5. What conversational English tells us about the nature of grammar:A critique of Thompson’s analysis of object complements 3
6. Usage, structure, scientific explanation, and the role of abstraction, by linguists and by language users 45
7. Raising verbs and auxiliaries in a functional theory of grammatical status 73
8. The rise of structure
9. How not to disagree: The emergence of structure from usage 107
10. Paradigmatic structure in a usage-based theory of grammaticalisation 145
11. Where do simple clauses come from? 167
12. Structure, usage and variation
13. Alternative agreement controllers in Danish: Usage or structure? 205
14. Schmidt redux: How systematic is the linguistic system if variation is rampant? 237
15. More tiles on the roof: Further thoughts on incremental language production 263
16. Reconciling structure and usage: On the advantages of a dynamic, dialogic conception of the linguistic sign 295
17. Methodology
18. Ten unwarranted assumptions in syntactic argumentation 313
19. Backmatter 351