In:Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee
Edited by K. Aaron Smith and Dawn Nordquist
[Studies in Language Companion Series 192] 2018
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 1 March 2018
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments
VII
The authors’ reflections on Joan
IX
Introduction
XV
K. Aaron Smith
Dawn Nordquist
Features of some ergative languages that impact on acquisition
1
Edith L. Bavin
Constructional pressures on ‘sit’ in Modern Greek
17
Soteria Svorou
know and understand in ASL: A usage-based study of
grammaticalized topic constructions
59
Terry Janzen
Traces of demonstrative grammaticalization in Spanish variable subject
expression: ella ‘she’ vs. él ‘he’
89
Rena Torres Cacoullos
The company that word-boundary sounds keep: The effect of contextual ratio
frequency on word-final /s/ in a sample of Mexican Spanish
107
Earl K. Brown
Cumulative exposure to phonetic reducing environments marks the lexicon:
Spanish /d-/ words spoken in isolation
127
Esther L. Brown
A usage-based account for the historical reflexes of auxiliary
ain’t in African American English
155
K. Aaron Smith
Gradient conventionalization of the Spanish expression of ‘becoming’
quedar(se) + ADJ in seven centuries
175
Damián Vergara Wilson
The evidence add ups: An affix shift study of prefabs
199
Clay Beckner
look up about: Usage-based processes in lexicalization
225
Dawn Nordquist
About the authors
247
Index
249
