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Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage Brian Macwhinney
Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage
Brian Macwhinney
This volume examines the conflicting factors that shape the content and form of grammatical rules in language, which speakers and addressees need to contend with when expressing themselves and when trying to comprehend messages. Chapters examine adult language, first and second language acquisition, and the motivations behind historical change
472 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 30, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198709848 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Genre | Aspects (Academic) > Psychological |
| Pages | 468 |
| Dimensions | 163 × 240 × 34 mm · 863 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | MacWhinney, Brian (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University) |
| Editor | Malchukov, Andrej (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences) |
| Editor | Moravcsik, Edith (Professor Emerita of Linguistics, Professor Emerita of Linguistics, University of Winconsin-Milwaukee) |
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