Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English
, by Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt- ISBN: 9783110190120 | 3110190125
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 5/1/2006
Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use linguistic material that they have produced or heard before. The book explores the determinants of this persistence in corpus data of spoken English. In providing a variationist-probabilistic choices, the study ultimately contributes to a theory of how spoken language works.