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TY - JOUR
T1 - Word classes
T2 - towards a more comprehensive usage-based account
AU - Hollmann, Willem
N1 - Uploaded document are the first uncorrected proofs. The page nrs. do not match the ones given above as the pagination of the volume has changed.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Structuralists and generativists define word classes distributionally (Palmer 1971,Baker 2003, Aarts 2007), while cognitive linguists take a semantic (Langacker1987a) or semantic-pragmatic approach (Croft 1991, 2001). Psycholinguisticresearch, by contrast, has shown that phonological properties also play a role(Kelly 1992, Monaghan et al. 2005). This study reports on a production experiment involving English nonce nouns and verbs. The data confirm the importance of phonology, whilst also suggesting that distributional facts are involved in lexical categorisation. Together with the existing psycholinguistic evidence, the results show that both the generative and cognitive models of word classes are too restricted. However, the usage-based model can accommodate the facts straightforwardly. This was already anticipated by Taylor (2002) but is worked out in more detail here by elaborating on his notion of phonological “subschemas” and by bringing together insights from Croft (1991, 2001) related to discourse propositional act constructions and recent suggestions by Langacker(2008b) concerning “summary scanning” and “sequential scanning”.
AB - Structuralists and generativists define word classes distributionally (Palmer 1971,Baker 2003, Aarts 2007), while cognitive linguists take a semantic (Langacker1987a) or semantic-pragmatic approach (Croft 1991, 2001). Psycholinguisticresearch, by contrast, has shown that phonological properties also play a role(Kelly 1992, Monaghan et al. 2005). This study reports on a production experiment involving English nonce nouns and verbs. The data confirm the importance of phonology, whilst also suggesting that distributional facts are involved in lexical categorisation. Together with the existing psycholinguistic evidence, the results show that both the generative and cognitive models of word classes are too restricted. However, the usage-based model can accommodate the facts straightforwardly. This was already anticipated by Taylor (2002) but is worked out in more detail here by elaborating on his notion of phonological “subschemas” and by bringing together insights from Croft (1991, 2001) related to discourse propositional act constructions and recent suggestions by Langacker(2008b) concerning “summary scanning” and “sequential scanning”.
KW - word classes
KW - cognitive linguistics
KW - psycholinguistics
KW - phonology
KW - distribution
U2 - 10.1075/sl.36.3.08hol
DO - 10.1075/sl.36.3.08hol
M3 - Journal article
VL - 36
SP - 671
EP - 698
JO - Studies in Language
JF - Studies in Language
SN - 0378-4177
IS - 3
ER -