What is it about?
The paper offers a cognitive account of the disappearance of grammatical constructions from a language.
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Why is it important?
It incorporates the disappearance of constructions in a cognitive model of language change whose focus to date has been on the creation and conventionalization of new grammar.
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This page is a summary of: Chapter 5. Towards a radically usage-based account of constructional attrition, February 2023, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/slcs.230.05noe.
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