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This book presents a comprehensive study of how children acquire complex sentences. Drawing on observational data from English-speaking children aged 2 to 5, Holger Diessel investigates the acquisition of infinitival and participial complement clauses, finite complement clauses, finite and nonfinite relative clauses, adverbial clauses, and coordinate clauses. His investigation shows that the development of complex sentences originates from simple non-embedded sentences and that two different developmental pathways can be distinguished: complex sentences including complement and relative clauses evolve from simple sentences that are gradually expanded to multiple-clause constructions, and complex sentences including adverbial and coordinate clauses develop from simple sentences that are integrated in a specific biclausal unit. He argues that the acquisition process is determined by a variety of factors: the frequency of the various complex sentences in the ambient language, the semantic and syntactic complexity of the emerging constructions, the communicative functions of complex sentences, and the social-cognitive development of the child.

Psycholinguistics --- Grammar --- 801.56 --- 801.56 Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Syntaxis. Semantiek --- Children --- English language --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Language acquisition --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Sentences (Grammar) --- Language --- Acquisition --- Sentences --- Vocabulary --- Language. --- Linguistics. --- Acquisition. --- Sentences. --- Language acquisition. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Germanic languages

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All languages have demonstratives, but their form, meaning and use vary tremendously across the languages of the world. This book presents the first large-scale analysis of demonstratives from a cross-linguistic and diachronic perspective. It is based on a representative sample of 85 languages. The first part of the book analyzes demonstratives from a synchronic point of view, examining their morphological structures, semantic features, syntactic functions, and pragmatic uses in spoken and written discourse. The second part concentrates on diachronic issues, in particular on the development of

Grammar [Comparative ] --- Demonstratives --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Demonstratives. --- Grammar, Comparative and general. --- Grammaticalization english language. --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Morphology. --- Semantics. --- Pragmatics. --- Demonstratives. --- Syntax.

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It is one of the central claims of construction grammar that constructions are organized in some kind of network, commonly referred to as the constructicon. This Element describes how the conception of the constructicon has changed in recent years and elaborates on some central claims of the multidimensional network approach.

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GRAMMAR, COMPARATIVE AND GENERAL --- DEMONSTRATIVES --- GRAMMAR, COMPARATIVE AND GENERAL --- DEMONSTRATIVES

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Frequency has been identified as one of the most influential factors in language processing, and plays a major role in usage-based models of language learning and language change. The research presented in this volume challenges established models of linguistic representation. Instead of learning and processing language compositionally, larger units and co-occurence relations are at work. The main point taken by the authors is that by studying the effect of distributional patterns and changes in such patterns we can establish a unified framework that explains the dynamics of language systems with a limited set of processing factors.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Psycholinguistics --- Dialectology --- Frequency (Linguistics) --- Linguistic change. --- Language and languages --- Psycholinguistics. --- Frequency (Linguistics). --- Variation. --- Linguistic change --- Variation --- Language, Psychology of --- Psychology of language --- Speech --- Linguistics --- Psychology --- Thought and thinking --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Frequency of occurrence (Linguistics) --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Psychological aspects --- Language and languages - Variation --- Language Change. --- Second Language Acquisition. --- Usage-based Linguistics.