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List of figures | p. vi |
List of tables | p. vii |
Acknowledgements | p. ix |
A usage-based perspective on language | p. 1 |
Rich memory for language: exemplar representation | p. 14 |
Chunking and degrees of autonomy | p. 33 |
Analogy and similarity | p. 57 |
Categorization and the distribution of constructions in corpora | p. 76 |
Where do constructions come from? Synchrony and diachrony in a usage-based theory | p. 105 |
Reanalysis or the gradual creation of new categories? The English Auxiliary | p. 120 |
Gradient constituency and gradual reanalysis | p. 136 |
Conventionalization and the local vs. the general: Modern English can | p. 151 |
Exemplars and grammatical meaning: the specific and the general | p. 165 |
Language as a complex adaptive system: the interaction of cognition, culture and use | p. 194 |
Notes | p. 222 |
Bibliography | p. 226 |
Index | p. 246 |
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