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Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions Adele E. Goldberg
Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions
Adele E. Goldberg
Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrainedWe 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"
216 pages, 15 b/w illus., 12 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 12, 2019 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691174259 |
| Publishers | Princeton University Press |
| Pages | 216 |
| Dimensions | 241 × 161 × 24 mm · 472 g |
| Language | English |