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"Language usage and language structure" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Introduction
• 2- Usage and structure: the case of clausal complementation: What conversational English tells us about the nature of grammar: a critique of Thompson's analysis of object complements / Frederick J. Newmeyer
• 3- Usage, structure, scientific explanation, and the role of abstraction, by linguists and by language users / Arie Verhagen
• 4- Raising verbs and auxiliaries in a functional theory of grammatical status / Kasper Boye
• 5- The rise of structure: How not to disagree: the emergence of structure from usage / Ronald W. Langacker
• 6- Paradigmatic structure in a usage-based theory of grammaticalisation / Lars Heltoft
• 7- Where do simple clauses come from? / T. Givón
• 8- Structure, usage and variation: Alternative agreement controllers in Danish: usage or structure? / Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen and Mads Poulsen
• 9- Schmidt redux: How systematic is the linguistic system if variation is rampant? / Dirk Geeraerts
• 10- More tiles on the roof: further thoughts on incremental language production / J. Lachlan Mackenzie
• 11- Reconciling structure and usage: on the advantages of a dynamic, dialogic conception of the linguistic sign / Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen
• 12- Methodology: Ten unwarranted assumptions in syntactic argumentation / William Croft.

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