TY - BOOK ID - 31262756 TI - Functionalist and usage-based approaches to the study of language : in honor of Joan L. Bybee AU - Smith, K. Aaron AU - Nordquist, Dawn. AU - Bybee, Joan L.. PY - 2018 SN - 9789027200228 902720022X 9789027264480 9027264481 PB - 'Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company DB - UniCat KW - Functionalism (Linguistics) KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Discourse analysis KW - Functional analysis (Linguistics) KW - Functional grammar KW - Functional linguistics KW - Functional-structural analysis (Linguistics) KW - Grammar, Functional KW - Grammatical functions KW - Language and languages KW - Syntax KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Discourse grammar KW - Text grammar KW - Usage KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Discourse analysis. KW - Usage. KW - Syntax. KW - Linguistics KW - Structural linguistics KW - Philology KW - Semantics KW - Semiotics KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31262756 AB - The contributions to this volume honor Joan Bybee's 2005 LSA Presidential address "Grammar is Usage and Usage is Grammar," as a cumulative articulation of Professor Bybee's long and influential career in linguistics. The volume begins with a functional examination of child language acquisition of ergative languages. The next three contributions successively investigate the grammaticalization of Greek postural verbs, Spanish third person pronouns, and American Sign Language topicalization constructions. The two following papers report on usage-based phonological studies of Spanish /s/ and /d/, respectively. The book concludes with four papers that address usage-based effects concerning the grammatical status of ain't in African American English, Spanish verbs of "becoming", and English lexis and prefabs. ER -