Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language

In honor of Joan L. Bybee

Editors

K. Aaron Smith

| Illinois State University

Dawn Nordquist

| University of New Mexico

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The contributions to this volume honor Joan Bybee’s 2005 LSA Presidential address “Grammar is Usage and Usage is Grammar,” as a cumulative articulation of Professor Bybee's long and influential career in linguistics. The volume begins with a functional examination of child language acquisition of ergative languages. The next three contributions successively investigate the grammaticalization of Greek postural verbs, Spanish third person pronouns, and American Sign Language topicalization constructions. The two following papers report on usage-based phonological studies of Spanish /s/ and /d/, respectively. The book concludes with four papers that address usage-based effects concerning the grammatical status of ain’t in African American English, Spanish verbs of “becoming”, and English lexis and prefabs. This volume will be of interest to a wide audience of functional and cognitive linguistic researchers.

[Studies in Language Companion Series, 192] 2018. xxvi, 250 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.192

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
The authors’ reflections on Joan	x–xiv
Introduction K. Aaron Smith and Dawn Nordquist	xvi–xxvi
Features of some ergative languages that impact on acquisition Edith L. Bavin	1–15
Constructional pressures on ‘sit’ in Modern Greek Soteria Svorou	17–58
know and understand in ASL: A usage-based study of grammaticalized topic constructions Terry Janzen	59–87
Traces of demonstrative grammaticalization in Spanish variable subject expression: ella ‘she’ vs. él ‘he’ Rena Torres Cacoullos	89–106
The company that word-boundary sounds keep: The effect of contextual ratio frequency on word-final /s/ in a sample of Mexican Spanish Earl K. Brown	107–125
Cumulative exposure to phonetic reducing environments marks the lexicon: Spanish /d-/ words spoken in isolation Esther L. Brown	127–153
A usage-based account for the historical reflexes of ain’t in AAE K. Aaron Smith	155–173
Gradient conventionalization of the Spanish expression of ‘becoming’ quedar(se) + ADJ in seven centuries Damián Vergara Wilson	175–198
The evidence add ups: An affix shift study of prefabs Clay Beckner	199–224
LOOK up about: Usage-based processes in lexicalization Dawn Nordquist	225–245
About the authors	247–248
Index	249–250

Subjects

Linguistics

Syntax

Functional linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009060 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2017049483 | Marc record