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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Usage-based linguistics"”.

  1. The Varieties of Tone Presence: On the Meanings of Musical Tone in Twentieth-Century Music

    Harcus, AaronThe Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York2018

    … African American studies, literary theory, usage-based linguistics, post-colonial theory, and phenomenology. I begin by offering a critique of three basic assumptions that constrain understandings of what we mean by pitch structure in post-tonal theory: that pitch structure concerns …

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  2. SUBJECT EXPRESSION IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE: CONSTRUCTION AND FREQUENCY EFFECTS

    Silveira, Agripino

    … proposed here falls under the framework of usage-based linguistics in which grammar is believed to be shaped by discourse as speakers produce it online (Bybee, 2006). Thus, any linguistic pattern observed in speech is emergent and a result of repetition (Bybee, 2006; Hopper, 1998). …

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  3. A USE FOR LINGUISTICS IN COMPOSITION A BLENDING THEORY APPROACH TO METAPHOR IN THE WRITING CLASS

    Markve, Stephen

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  4. "Hey, y'guys!": A diachronic usage-based approach to changes in American English address

    Sienicki, Ben

    <p>This dissertation adopts a functional, usage-based perspective on language to highlight key changes in American English address over the past century, especially the development of 'you guys' and its expansion across second-person plural contexts. Based on data from the Corpus of Historical …

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