Negative entrenchment: A usage-based approach to negative evidence

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 513-531

  Stefanowitsch, Anatol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Collostructional analysis; Corpus linguistics; Entrenchment; Negative evidence; Usage based model

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949124210     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COGL.2008.020     Document Type: Article

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