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"Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We 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 a creative and easily interpretable formulation-such as ""Explain me this"" or ""She considered to go"""

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Author:   Adele E. Goldberg
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
ISBN:  

9780691174266

ISBN 10:   0691174261
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   12 February 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

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In Explain Me This, Adele Goldberg, one of the world's most creative and inspiring linguists, offers a fascinating account of why we speak as we do and develops a model that sheds fresh light on the roles of generalizations and word-related knowledge stored in memory. This book is an absolute must for linguists and language psychologists all over the world. --Thomas Herbst, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit t Erlangen-N rnberg This is an engagingly written and wide-ranging approach to linguistic knowledge that combines linguistic analyses, studies of child language acquisition, and studies of adult language production and comprehension. Explain Me This is thought provoking, entertaining, and full of great observations and ideas. --Maryellen MacDonald, University of Wisconsin-Madison Explain Me This reveals Adele Goldberg as the most exciting figure to arrive on the linguistics scene since Noam Chomsky changed everything back in the 1960s. And it has to be said that her version of construction grammar is a good deal more elegant, robust, and psychologically realistic than transformational grammar ever was. --Chris Knight, author of Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics

In Explain Me This, Adele Goldberg, one of the world's most creative and inspiring linguists, offers a fascinating account of why we speak as we do and develops a model that sheds fresh light on the roles of generalizations and word-related knowledge stored in memory. This book is an absolute must for linguists and language psychologists all over the world. -Thomas Herbst, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg This is an engagingly written and wide-ranging approach to linguistic knowledge that combines linguistic analyses, studies of child language acquisition, and studies of adult language production and comprehension. Explain Me This is thought provoking, entertaining, and full of great observations and ideas. -Maryellen MacDonald, University of Wisconsin-Madison Explain Me This reveals Adele Goldberg as the most exciting figure to arrive on the linguistics scene since Noam Chomsky changed everything back in the 1960s. And it has to be said that her version of construction grammar is a good deal more elegant, robust, and psychologically realistic than transformational grammar ever was. -Chris Knight, author of Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics

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Adele E. Goldberg is professor of psychology at Princeton University. She is the author of Constructions at Work: The Nature of Generalization in Language and Constructions: A Construction Grammar Approach to Argument Structure.

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