Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English: A Corpus Study at the Intersection of Variationist Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Discourse A

by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use morphosyntactic material that they have produced or heard before. In other words, linguistic patterns and tokens, once used, persist in discourse. The present book is the first large-scale corpus analysis to explore the determinants of this persistence, drawing on regression analyses of a variety of functional, discourse-functional, cognitive, psycholinguistic, and external factors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110190125
• ISBN13: 9783110190120
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary