Creative analogy and language evolution |
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Authors: | John M. Carroll |
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Affiliation: | (1) Computer Science Department, IBM Watson Research Center, 10598 Yorktown Heights, New York;(2) Present address: Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139 Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Abstract: | The English good and intensifier is discussed as an example of a form that is acceptable even though ungrammatical, both synchronically and diachronically. The construction is analyzed as a case of creative analogy: the extension of a grammatically generated form to a new function, one for which it has no direct grammatical justification. From the perspective of a dynamic theory of language acquisition and evolution, it is argued that such forms constitute a new sort of evidence regarding the nature of language universals.Previous versions of this work were presented to the LSA summer meetings in 1974 and in Carroll (1975, 1978). |
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