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Understanding Relative Clauses : A Usage-Based View on the Processing of Complex Constructions

Part of the Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm] series
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The book offers a usage-based account of how humans comprehend complex linguistic structures.

The author proposes a theory of constructional access, which treats syntactic patterns as complex and abstract signs.

In this view, syntactic processing is subject to the very same dynamics as lexical processing and should yield the same type of frequency effects.

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de Gruyter Mouton
3110339382 / 9783110339383
Hardback
410
27/11/2014
Germany
270 pages
155 x 230 mm, 505 grams
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