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Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions
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Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions

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Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained

We use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language constructions in new ways. Yet native speakers also implicitly know when a creative and easily interpretable formulation-such as Explain me this or She considered to go

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Date
23 April 2019
Pages
216
ISBN
9780691174259

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained

We use words and phrases creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language constructions in new ways. Yet native speakers also implicitly know when a creative and easily interpretable formulation-such as Explain me this or She considered to go

Read More
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Date
23 April 2019
Pages
216
ISBN
9780691174259