Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee

Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language
Editorial page
Title page
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments
The authors’ reflections on Joan
	Edith Bavin
	Soteria Svorou
	Terry Janzen
	Rena Torres Cacoullos
	Earl Brown
	Esther Brown
	K. Aaron Smith
	Damián Wilson
	Clay Beckner
	Dawn Nordquist
Introduction
	Joan’s scholarly contributions in the field of linguistics
	Natural generative phonology
	Child language acquisition
	Morphology
	Grammaticalization
	Usage-based theory
	Linguistics and beyond
	References
	The papers
Features of some ergative languages that impact on acquisition
	Introduction
	Cues to acquisition
	Ergative alignment
	Acquiring ergative languages: Some examples of influencing factors
		Hindi
		Warlpiri
	Mayan languages
	Conclusion
	References
Constructional pressures on ‘sit’ in Modern Greek
	1. Introduction
	2. The semantics and morphology of kaθοme ‘I sit’
	3. Coordination and pseudo-coordination
	4. Why corpus methodology?
	5. Contextual cues
		5.1 Semantic types of coordination
		5.2 Tense and aspect
		5.3 Semantic types and tense/aspect correlation
		5.4 Syntactic compactness of the string
		5.5 Semantic types and their structural traces
			Extended
			Deliberate
			Simultaneous
			Sequential
			Collection
		5.6 Subject Person/Number
		5.7 V2 verbs and their frames
		5.8 Pragmatic confluences
		5.9 Summary
	6. Conclusion
	Abbreviations
	References
know and understand in ASL
	1. Introduction
	2. Grammaticalization in signed languages
	3. Topic marking and topic constructions in ASL
	4. Data
	5. Lexical know and know-topic constructions
		5.1 KNOW tokens across the ASL conversational corpus
		5.2 Lexical KNOW
		5.3 KNOW as a discourse marker
		5.4 KNOW as a topic marker
		5.5 Location variation in KNOW tokens
	6. Lexical understand and understand-topic constructions
		6.1 Lexical understand
		6.2 understand-topics
	7. The emergence of categories in ASL grammar
	8. Conclusion
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	References
Traces of demonstrative grammaticalization in Spanish variable subject expression
	1. Variation as a window into grammaticalization
	2. Data
	3. Operationalizing deictic function and other motivations for the use of subject pronouns
	4. Linguistic conditioning of subject pronouns in early Spanish texts
	5. The intersection of referent gender and syntactic role of previous mention
	6. Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Corpus
	References
The company that word-boundary sounds keep
	Introduction
		Usage-based models of language
		Spanish /s/
		The present study
	Data and methods
	Results
		Duration
		Center of gravity
	Discussion
	Conclusions
	References
Cumulative exposure to phonetic reducing environments marks the lexicon
	1. Introduction
	2. Background
		2.1 Lexicalized effects of words’ context histories (FRC)
		2.2 The dependent variable: Spanish /d-/ lenition
	3. Data and methods
		3.1 Speakers
		3.2 Materials
		3.3 Recording
		3.4 Acoustic measurements
	4. Results
		4.1 Variation
		4.2 Variation & FRC_approx
			4.2.1 Relative strength of [d] articulations
			4.2.2 Relative strength of approximant realizations [ð]
			4.2.3 Linear modeling of onset variation
	5. Discussion
	Acknowledgements
	References
A usage-based account for the historical reflexes of ain’t in AAE
	1. Introduction
	2. Linguistic status of ain’t in English overall
		2.1 Distribution of ain’t in AAE
	3. Method and sources
	4. Data
	5. Discussion
		5.1 General
	6. Analysis
		6.1 Present-tense ain’t
		6.2 Underdetermined ain’t
		6.3 Undetermination and linguistic complexity
	7. The divergence hypothesis and usage-based grammar: A conclusion
	Primary resourses
	References
Gradient conventionalization of the Spanish ­expression of ‘becoming’ quedar(se) + ADJ in seven centuries
	Introduction
	Previous examinations of verbs of ‘becoming’
	Quedarse + ADJ in eight centuries
	Operationalization in corpus linguistics
	Conventionalized Instances of Constructions (CICs)
	The Conventionalization Index
		Previous usage
		Number of works
		CIC threshold
		Overall normalized frequency
	The case of quedar(se) solo ‘to be left alone’
	The case of the quedar(se) alegre / satisfecho ‘to be left happy/satisfied’ clusters
	Concluding remarks
	References
The evidence add ups
	1. Introduction
		1.1 Errors of interest, and theoretical background
			1.1.1 Full affix shifts
			1.1.2 Double-marked affixes
			1.1.3 No-marking errors
		1.2 Predictions, and quantitative corpus metrics
	2. Task design
		2.1 Materials and stimulus design
			2.1.1 Frequency x Mutual Dependency bins
			2.1.2 Bigram features matched across bins
			2.1.3 Bigram stimuli and distractors
		2.2 Participants and experiment setup
		2.3 Results and discussion: Affix shifts and other affixation errors on bigram stimuli
			2.3.1 Participant accuracy
			2.3.2 Overview of errors: Affix shifts, double-marking errors, no-marking errors
	3. Data and analysis
		3.1 Post hoc analysis: Examining components of the MD metric
	4. Discussion and conclusion
	References
look up about
	1. Introduction
	2. Background
		2.1 ‘Phrasal-Prepositional Verb’ interpretations
		2.2 Lexicalization
		2.3 Usage-based processes
		2.3.1 Chunking
		2.3.2 Holistic and shallow processing
	3. Data collection and method
	4. Analysis
		4.1 ‘Look up about’ as a lexical item
		4.2 Development of Multi-Word ‘look up about’
	5. Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	References
About the authors
Index