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. 2017 Jan:40:e288.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X1700036X.

Structural priming can inform syntactic analyses of partially grammaticalized constructions

Elaine J Francis  1
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Structural priming can inform syntactic analyses of partially grammaticalized constructions

Elaine J Francis. Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

Branigan & Pickering (B&P) argue successfully that structural priming provides valuable information for developing psychologically plausible syntactic and semantic theories. I discuss how their approach can be used to help determine whether partially grammaticalized constructions that have undergone semantic change also have undergone syntactic reanalysis. I then consider cases in which evidence from priming cannot distinguish between competing syntactic analyses.

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