Nick C. Ellis, Ute Römer, and Matthew Brook O’Donnell: Usage-Based Approaches to Language Acquisition and Processing: Cognitive and Corpus Investigations of Construction Grammar

• Autores: Gaëtanelle Gilquin
• Localización: Applied linguistics, ISSN 0142-6001, Vol. 39, Nº 3, 2018, págs. 437-441
• Idioma: inglés

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  • Usage-based approaches to language acquisition and processing: cognitive and corpus investigations of construction grammar

    Nick C. Ellis, Ute Römer, Matthew Brook O'Donnell

    Chichester : Wiley, 2016

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  • This book, published in the Language Learning Monograph Series, is the result of a long-lasting collaboration between three researchers, Nick Ellis, Ute Römer, and Matthew Brook O’Donnell, who come from different—but complementary—backgrounds: cognitive psychology, corpus linguistics, and computer science. This combined expertise shines through in each of the 10 chapters which, taken together, provide a comprehensive account of the use, acquisition, and processing of Verb-Argument Constructions (VACs) in English from a usage-based, and more particularly Construction Grammar perspective. The main focus is on three VACs, namely, the Verb Locative, or intransitive motion construction (e.g. He ran into the room), the Verb Object Locative, or caused motion construction (e.g. She put the box under the bed), and the Verb Object Object, or ditransitive...