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The nature of generalization in language

  • Adele E. Goldberg
Published/Copyright: February 10, 2009
Cognitive Linguistics
From the journal Volume 20 Issue 1

Abstract

This paper provides a concise overview of Constructions at Work (Goldberg 2006). The book aims to investigate the relevant levels of generalization in adult language, how and why generalizations are learned by children, and how to account for cross-linguistic generalizations.

Keywords:: constructionist approach; usage-based, argument structure constructions; learning, categorization; statistical preemption; category induction; information structure; islands; scope; linking rules; argument omission; argument realization
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Received: 2007-05-11
Revised: 2008-05-21
Published Online: 2009-02-10
Published in Print: 2009-February

© 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin

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https://doi.org/10.1515/COGL.2009.005
Keywords for this article
constructionist approach; usage-based, argument structure constructions; learning, categorization; statistical preemption; category induction; information structure; islands; scope; linking rules; argument omission; argument realization

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  1. Cognitive Linguistics comes of age
  2. ‘Caused motion’? The semantics of the English to-dative and the Dutch aan-dative
  3. Fictive dynamicity, nominal aspect, and the Finnish copulative construction
  4. The role of gesture in crossmodal typological studies
  5. The nature of generalization in language
  6. Constructions at work or at rest?
  7. On Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and the notion “purely formal generalization”
  8. The case of the missing generalizations
  9. Constructions and generalizations
  10. Cognitive (Construction) Grammar
  11. Constructions on holiday
  12. Developing constructions
  13. Constructions work
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