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Publication details [#51425]

Goldberg, Adele E. 2009. The nature of generalization in language. Cognitive Linguistics 20 (1) : 93–127.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult | child | crosslinguistic perspective | generalization

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/COGL/html

Annotation

This overview discusses Goldberg's (2006) book 'Constructions at Work', which explores relevant generalization levels in adult language, how and why children learn generalizations, and how to explain cross-linguistic generalizations.