Usage-Based Approaches to Language Acquisition and Processing: Cognitive and Corpus Investigations of Construction Grammar

by Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Nick C Ellis, Ute Romer, et al.

Nick C. Ellis, Ute R mer, and Matthew Brook O'Donnell present a view of language as a complex adaptive system that is learned through usage. In a series of research studies, they analyze Verb-Argument Constructions (VACs) in first and second language learning, processing, and use. Drawing on diverse epistemological and methodological perspectives, they show how language emerges out of multiple experiences of meaning-making. In the development of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1119296528
• ISBN13: 9781119296522
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"