Language, Usage and Cognition

by Joan L. Bybee

Book Overview

Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels: languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; utterances within a language differ from one another while exhibiting the same structural patterns; languages change over time, but in fairly regular ways. This book focuses on the dynamic processes that create languages and give them their structure and variance. It outlines a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521616832
• ISBN13: 9780521616836
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"