: Kasper Boye, Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen
: Language Usage and Language Structure
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110219180
: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 177.10
:
: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 368
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< >The volume addresses an issue hotly debated in current linguistic theory: the relation between language usage and language structure. The contributors represent different theoretical positions. What they have in common is that they recognize structure and usage as non-reducible linguistic phenomena and take seriously the challenge to describe the relation between them.



Kasper Boye andElisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Table of Contents5
Introduction7
What conversational English tells us about the nature of grammar:A critique of Thompson’s analysis of object complements17
Usage, structure, scientific explanation, and the role of abstraction, by linguists and by language users59
Raising verbs and auxiliaries in a functional theory of grammatical status87
How not to disagree: The emergence of structure from usage121
Paradigmatic structure in a usage-based theory of grammaticalisation159
Where do simple clauses come from?181
Alternative agreement controllers in Danish: Usage or structure?219
Schmidt redux: How systematic is the linguistic system if variation is rampant?251
More tiles on the roof: Further thoughts on incremental language production277
Reconciling structure and usage: On the advantages of a dynamic, dialogic conception of the linguistic sign309
Ten unwarranted assumptions in syntactic argumentation327
Subject index365