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Author: Brian MacWhinney (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University) ,
Andrej Malchukov (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences) ,
Edith Moravcsik (Professor Emerita of Linguistics, Professor Emerita of Linguistics, University of Winconsin-Milwaukee)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 3.40cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.864kg
ISBN: 9780198709848
ISBN 10: 0198709846
Pages: 468
Publication Date: 30 October 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
This book is a fascinating, rich collection of papers (21 in total) dealing with the role of competition in syntax (Part I), morphology and the lexicon (Part II), as well as the nature of competition more generally (Part III). * Applied Linguistics * This book contributes to the understanding of the complexities of language usage in its examination of conflicting factors. * Keren Rice, Studies in Language *
This book contributes to the understanding of the complexities of language usage in its examination of conflicting factors. Keren Rice, Studies in Language
Author Information
Brian MacWhinney is Professor of Psychology, Computational Linguistics, and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. He has developed a model of first and second language acquisition, processing, and disorders called the Competition Model, which describes how language learning emerges from forces operating on lexically-based patterns across divergent timeframes. It has been tested through cross-linguistic experimentation, neuroimaging, online language learning, and analysis of the CHILDES and TalkBank corpora. His recent publications include The CHILDES Project: Tools for Analyzing Talk (3rd ed; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000) and, co-edited with Roberta Klatzky and Marlene Behrmann, Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action (Psychology Press 2008). Andrej Malchukov is a Senior Researcher at the St. Petersburg Institute for Linguistic Research (Russian Academy of Sciences) and is currently affiliated to the University of Mainz as a Visiting Professor. In addition to descriptive work on Siberian languages, his main research interests lie in the domain of language typology. His publications include the edited volumes The Oxford Handbook of Case (with Andrew Spencer; OUP 2009), Studies in Ditransitive Constructions: A Comparative Handbook (with Bernard Comrie and Martin Haspelmath; Mouton de Gruyter 2010) and Impersonal Constructions: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective (with Anna Siewierska; John Benjamins 2011). Edith Moravcsik is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she has taught for over 30 years. Her publications include the textbooks An Introduction to Syntax and An Introduction to Syntactic Theory (both Continuum 2006), and Introducing Language Typology (CUP 2013) and the edited volumes Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics (with Michael Darnell, Frederick Newmeyer, Michael Noonan, and Kathleen Wheatley; John Benjamins 1999) and Formulaic Language (with Roberta Corrigan, Hamid Ouali, and Kathleen Wheatley). She has also published a number of articles on language typology and universals, Hungarian grammar, and conflict resolution.
