Michael L. Best
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael L. Best is involved.
Article
2006 Adaptive value within natural language discourse Interaction Studies 7:1, pp. 1–15 | Article
A trait is of adaptive value if it confers a fitness advantage to its possessor. Thus adaptiveness is an ahistorical identification of a trait affording some selective advantage to an agent within some particular environment. In results reported here we identify a trait within natural language… read more