The handbook of usage-based linguistics / edited by Manuel D�iaz-Campos and Sonia Balasch.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The last thirty years has seen usage-based theories of language development and acquisition -- a field of study that has grown out of advances in cognitive linguistics and corpora analysis--dramatically disrupt traditional beliefs about universal grammar. Asserting that grammar emerges from our cognitive responses to our experiences with language, usage-based language study employs data derived from interdisciplinary studies including sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, experimental linguistics, corpora studies, and language acquisition studies to build a compelling case that grammars must be considered within broad contexts in order to be analysed successfully. The Handbook of Usage-Based Linguistics stands as the first volume of its kind, offering a ground-breaking and interdisciplinary view of the application of usage-based theory to the study of language and linguistics. In six sections covering the development and history of the field, the application of usage-based theory to fields such as phonology, morphosyntax, psycholinguistics, and language variation and change, and the future of usage-based linguistics, this volume brings together work that offers insights into usage-based theory in many languages and disciplines. Essays in this work come from an international group of established and emerging scholars in the field of usage-based theory who offer diverse perspectives on theory, history, and methodology. This work offers a unique and dedicated examination of the contributions of usage-based theory to linguistics and language study. For students and scholars in linguistics -- especially those in psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, corpora analysis, and Hispanic linguistics -- this work is certain to become an essential reference work for this exciting emerging area of research"-- Provided by publisher.

About the Author
MANUEL DÍAZ-CAMPOS is Full Professor of Hispanic Sociolinguistics at Indiana University. His research has been published in leading journals such as Language in Society, Probus, Lingua, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and Spanish in Context. He is the editor of The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics, the author of Introducción a la Sociolingüística Hispánica, and the co-author of Introducción y Aplicaciones a la Lingüística Hispánica.

SONIA BALASCH is Adjunct Professor of Spanish at Santa Fe Community College and a staff member of Albuquerque Public Schools. She has taught core Spanish language courses at all levels, as well as Hispanic Linguistics, Spanish Phonetics and Phonology, and Spanish Applied Linguistics. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science and several edited volumes on language variation and Spanish sociolinguistics.