Fang Mei [方梅](2018)《浮现语法：基于汉语口语和书面语的研究》. [Emergent grammar: Studies based on spoken and written Chinese]

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-155
Author(s):  
Zuoyan Song
Keyword(s):  
Emergent Grammar

scholarly journals Emergent Grammar

1987 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Hopper
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Emergent Grammar

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1987), pp. 139-157

Emergent grammar

2003 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
Keyword(s):  
Emergent Grammar

scholarly journals A dynamic network analysis of emergent grammar

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 652-680
Author(s):  
Paul Ibbotson ◽  
Vsevolod Salnikov ◽  
Richard Walker
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Dynamic Network ◽  
Cultural Systems ◽  
Network Communities ◽  
Emergent Grammar ◽  
Reliable Source ◽  
Syntactic Information ◽  
Traditional Approaches

For languages to survive as complex cultural systems, they need to be learnable. According to traditional approaches, learning is made possible by constraining the degrees of freedom in advance of experience and by the construction of complex structure during development. This article explores a third contributor to complexity: namely, the extent to which syntactic structure can be an emergent property of how simpler entities – words – interact with one another. The authors found that when naturalistic child directed speech was instantiated in a dynamic network, communities formed around words that were more densely connected with other words than they were with the rest of the network. This process is designed to mirror what we know about distributional patterns in natural language: namely, the network communities represented the syntactic hubs of semi-formulaic slot-and-frame patterns, characteristic of early speech. The network itself was blind to grammatical information and its organization reflected (a) the frequency of using a word and (b) the probabilities of transitioning from one word to another. The authors show that grammatical patterns in the input disassociate by community structure in the emergent network. These communities provide coherent hubs which could be a reliable source of syntactic information for the learner. These initial findings are presented here as proof-of-concept in the hope that other researchers will explore the possibilities and limitations of this approach on a larger scale and with more languages. The implications of a dynamic network approach are discussed for the learnability burden and the development of an adult-like grammar.

Rethinking format: An examination of requests

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Fox ◽  
Trine Heinemann
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
American English ◽  
Service Encounters ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Emergent Grammar ◽  
Grammatical Variation ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThis study explores the formulation of requests in an American English-speaking shoe repair shop. Taking prior work on request formats as our starting point, we explore the two primary syntactic moods (declarative and interrogative) in our collection and two of the commonly noted subtypes of these moods,need/want-declaratives andcan-interrogatives. While our findings in very general terms match those of previous studies, we also find significant grammatical variation within each of these formats, and note interactional uses for each variation. Our examination yields insight into facets of requesting that were previously undescribed. We offer an Emergent Grammar perspective on the complexity of lexicosyntax in the social action of requesting. (Requests, formats, Emergent Grammar, Conversation Analysis, American English, service encounters)*

Complementation in linear and dialogic syntax: The case of Hebrew divergently aligned discourse

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yael Maschler ◽  
Bracha Nir
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Emergent Grammar ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Structural Perspective

AbstractThis study investigates the interaction between linear and dialogic syntax in Hebrew conversation. Analyzing resonance in divergently aligned contexts, we examine a particular dialogic modification of complex syntactic constructions: the embedding of one construction within the scope of another. Specifically, we examine a family of constructions which, in the terms of linear syntax, are analyzed as forms of complementation (via the complementizer še- ‘that’, via a question word, or via the conditional conjunction 'im ‘if ’). However, the dialogic alignment of these forms with their preceding utterances reflects a complex picture, in which some patterns are still definable by linear syntax, but others are not accounted for by these traditional terms. Rather, the application of the Dialogic Syntax framework calls into question defining such constructions from a purely structural perspective and supports a more fluid, Emergent Grammar approach. Moreover, we illustrate how dialogic actions in fact motivate the interaction-based grammaticization of new constructions, culminating, in the case of the constructions examined here, in the emergence of discourse markers.

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