
Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions
In this book, Adele E. Goldberg approaches a linguistic paradox and shows how cognitive mechanisms influence our language skills. Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions (Princeton University Press) explains how memory and our implicit knowledge of language affect the learning mechanisms we use to create new language constructions.

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