Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage.

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""Cover""; ""Competing Motivations in Grammar and Usage""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Notes on contributors""; ""List of figures and tables""; ""Figures""; ""List of abbreviations""; ""1: Introduction""; ""1.1 Basic issues""; ""1.2 Past research""; ""1.3 Overview of the book""; ""Part I: Competition in Syntax: Grammatical Relations and Word Order""; ""2: Resolving alignment conflicts: A competing motivations approach""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.1.1 Alignment hierarchies: some proposals""; ""2.1.2 Problematic cases""

""2.1.3 Accounting for alignment patterns: a competing motivations approach""""2.2 Alignment conflicts in the monotransitive domain""; ""2.2.1 Introductory remarks""; ""2.2.2 Alignment in imperative formation""; ""2.2.3 Alignment in control constructions""; ""2.2.4 Alignment in nominalizations""; ""2.2.4 Conclusions""; ""2.3 Alignment conflicts in the ditransitive domain""; ""2.3.1 Introducing ditransitive alignment""; ""2.3.2 Ditransitive alignment: antipassives""; ""2.3.3 Ditransitive alignment: incorporation""; ""2.3.4 Ditransitive alignment: reciprocal formation""

""2.3.5 Conclusions: ditransitive alignment""""2.4 Discussion: modeling constraint competition in Optimality Theory""; ""2.5 Concluding remarks""; ""3: Animate object fronting in Dutch: A production study""; ""3.1 Introduction""; ""3.2 Animacy selected by different types of verbs""; ""3.3 A production experiment with different types of verbs""; ""3.3.1 Methods""; ""3.3.2 Material""; ""3.3.3 Participants""; ""3.3.4 Results""; ""3.3.5 Discussion""; ""3.4 Conclusion""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""4: Patterns in competing motivations and the interaction of principles""; ""4.1 Introduction""

""4.2 Pattern One: Degree of preference""""4.2.1 Performance""; ""4.2.2 Grammars""; ""4.2.2.1 Greenberg�s correlations""; ""4.2.2.2 Center-embedding hierarchies""; ""4.3 Pattern Two: Cooperation""; ""4.3.1 Performance""; ""4.3.2 Grammars""; ""4.4 Pattern Three: A competition hypothesis""; ""4.4.1 Performance""; ""4.4.2 Grammars""; ""4.5 Cooperation and competition in learning""; ""4.6 Conclusions""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""5: Why move? How weight and discourse factors combine to predict relative clause extraposition in English""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 Corpus study""

""5.2.1 Coding scheme""""5.2.2 Discourse-related properties of RCE and non-RCE tokens""; ""5.2.3 Discourse and weight-based factors as independent predictors of RCE usage""; ""5.3 Qualitative analysis of exceptional cases""; ""5.4 General discussion and conclusions""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""6: A statistical model of competing motivations affecting relative clause extraposition in German""; ""6.1 Introduction""; ""6.1.1 Relative clause extraposition""; ""6.1.2 A corpus of German relative clauses""; ""6.2 Competing motivations affecting extraposition""

This volume examines the conflicting factors that shape the content and form of grammatical rules in language, which speakers and addressees need to contend with when expressing themselves and when trying to comprehend messages. Chapters examine adult language, first and second language acquisition, and the motivations behind historical change.

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