This book explores the usage-based claim that high usage frequency leads to the entrenchment of complex words in the minds of language users. To probe the corre

This book explores the usage-based claim that high usage frequency leads to the entrenchment of complex words in the minds of language users. To probe the corre

In this groundbreaking book, Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research i

The study of code-switching has been carried out from linguistic, psycholinguistic, and sociolinguistic perspectives, largely in isolation from each other. This

This volume outlines a model of language that can be characterized as functionalist, usage-based, dynamic, and complex-adaptive. The core idea is that linguisti