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Explore the complex balance of language through Adele Goldberg's incisive study, Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions. This book examines why human language use is simultaneously highly creative and strictly constrained. While we use words and phrases to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, native speakers possess an implicit understanding of which formulations sound correct and which do not. Goldberg investigates how these linguistic skills emerge from the combination of experience and general cognitive mechanisms. By analyzing how we extend language constructions in new ways, this work sheds light on how we navigate the boundaries of grammar and expression. It is an essential read for those interested in the mechanics of syntax, structure, and the cognitive processes behind how we communicate.

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Explain Me This is an incisive book by Adele Goldberg published by Princeton University Press.

This work explores the relationship between creative language use and the constraints of human grammar.

The text examines how native speakers use cognitive mechanisms and experience to master language constructions.

The book provides a deep look into how we extend phrases in new ways while maintaining correct syntax.

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Amazon UK
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12 February 2019
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26 April 2018

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