Productivity and reuse in language : a theory of linguistic computation and storage /

"Language allows us to express and comprehend an unbounded number of thoughts. This fundamental and much-celebrated property is made possible by a division of labor between a large inventory of stored items (e.g., affixes, words, idioms) and a computational system that productively combines the...

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Main Author: O'Donnell, Timothy J., 1977- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
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