An introduction to word grammar

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Hudson, Richard A.

Series:

Cambridge textbooks in linguistics

Publication Information:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2010

Physical Description:

xv, 332 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

ISBN:

9780521896900

9780521721646

Subject Term:

English language -- Grammar

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Word grammar is a theory of language structure and is based on the assumption that language, and indeed the whole of knowledge, is a network, and that virtually all of knowledge is learned. It combines the psychological insights of cognitive linguistics with the rigour of more formal theories. This textbook spans a broad range of topics from prototypes, activation and default inheritance to the details of syntactic, morphological and semantic structure. It introduces elementary ideas from cognitive science and uses them to explain the structure of language including a survey of English grammar.

Author Notes

Richard Hudson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University College London. His recent publications include Language Networks: The New Word Grammar (2007).

List of figures	p. x
List of tables	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Part I How the mind works
1 Introduction to cognitive science	p. 7
2 Categorization	p. 9
2.1 Concepts, categories and exemplars	p. 9
2.2 Taxonomies and the isA relation	p. 12
2.3 Generalizations and inheritance	p. 16
2.4 Multiple inheritance and choices	p. 22
2.5 Default inheritance and prototype effects	p. 24
2.6 Social categories and stereotypes	p. 30
3 Network structure	p. 34
3.1 Concepts, percepts, feelings and actions	p. 34
3.2 Relational concepts, arguments and values	p. 37
3.3 Choices, features and cross-classification	p. 44
3.4 Examples of relational taxonomies	p. 47
3.5 The network notion, properties and default inheritance	p. 57
3.6 Do networks need modularity?	p. 63
4 Network activity	p. 70
4.1 Activation and long-term memory	p. 70
4.2 Activation and working memory	p. 73
4.3 Building and learning exemplar nodes	p. 80
4.4 Building induced nodes	p. 83
4.5 Building inherited nodes	p. 87
4.6 Binding nodes together	p. 91
Part II How language works
5 Introduction to linguistics	p. 103
5.1 Description	p. 103
5.2 Detail	p. 104
5.3 Data	p. 105
5.4 Differences	p. 105
5.5 Divisions	p. 106
5.6 Developments	p. 108
6 Words as concepts	p. 109
6.1 Types and tokens	p. 109
6.2 Word properties	p. 114
6.3 Word-classes	p. 117
6.4 Grammaticality	p. 118
6.5 Lexemes and inflections	p. 121
6.6 Definitions and efficiency	p. 127
6.7 Morphology and lexical relations	p. 131
6.8 Social properties of words	p. 136
6.9 Levels of analysis	p. 138
7 Syntax	p. 145
7.1 Dependencies and phrases	p. 145
7.2 Valency	p. 154
7.3 Morpho-syntactic features, agreement and unrealized words	p. 162
7.4 Default word order	p. 168
7.5 Coordination	p. 175
7.6 Special word orders	p. 181
7.7 Syntax without modules	p. 189
8 Using and learning language	p. 193
8.1 Accessibility and frequency	p. 193
8.2 Retrieving words	p. 197
8.3 Tokens and types in listening and speaking	p. 202
8.4 Learning generalizations	p. 205
8.5 Using generalizations	p. 209
8.6 Binding in word-recognition, parsing and pragmatics	p. 212
8.7 Meaning	p. 220
8.8 Social meaning	p. 241
Part III How English works
9 Introduction to English linguistics	p. 249
10 English words	p. 251
10.1 Word-classes	p. 251
10.2 Inflections	p. 255
10.3 Word-class properties	p. 260
10.4 Morphology and lexical relations	p. 270
10.5 Social properties	p. 276
11 English syntax	p. 279
11.1 Dependencies	p. 279
11.2 Valency	p. 279
11.3 Features, agreement and unrealized lexemes	p. 296
11.4 Default word order	p. 301
11.5 Coordination	p. 304
11.6 Special word orders	p. 307
References	p. 327
Index	p. 322

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