TY - BOOK
T1 - Ten Lectures on Language as Cognition
T2 - A Multi-Method Approach
AU - Divjak, Dagmar
AU - Milin, Petar
PY - 2023/7/26
Y1 - 2023/7/26
N2 - Merging insights from cognitive linguistic theories of language and learning theories originating within psychology, Divjak and Milin present a new paradigm that has computational modelling at its core. They showcase the power of this interdisciplinary approach for linguistic theory, methodology and description. Through a series of detailed case studies that model usage of the English article system, the Polish aspectual system, English tense/aspect contrasts and the Serbian case system they show how computational models anchored in learning can provide a simple and comprehensive account of how intricate phenomena that have long defied a unified treatment could be learned from exposure to usage alone. As such, their models form the basis for a first rigorous test of a core assumption of usage-based linguistics: that of the emergence of structure from use.
AB - Merging insights from cognitive linguistic theories of language and learning theories originating within psychology, Divjak and Milin present a new paradigm that has computational modelling at its core. They showcase the power of this interdisciplinary approach for linguistic theory, methodology and description. Through a series of detailed case studies that model usage of the English article system, the Polish aspectual system, English tense/aspect contrasts and the Serbian case system they show how computational models anchored in learning can provide a simple and comprehensive account of how intricate phenomena that have long defied a unified treatment could be learned from exposure to usage alone. As such, their models form the basis for a first rigorous test of a core assumption of usage-based linguistics: that of the emergence of structure from use.
UR - https://brill.com/display/title/61525
U2 - 10.1163/9789004532816
DO - 10.1163/9789004532816
M3 - Book
SN - 9789004506503
T3 - Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics
BT - Ten Lectures on Language as Cognition
PB - Brill
ER -