Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions by Adele Goldberg

Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions

Adele Goldberg

216 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

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Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrainedWe use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language constructions in new ways. Yet native speakers also implicitly know when ...

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