Vorläufiges Programm:

Mittwoch, den 16.06.2010

10 - 12    The usage-based approach: basic assumptions

Donnerstag, den 17.06.2010

10 - 12    Psychological mechanisms of usage and development

14 - 16    Language use and language universals

Freitag, den 18.06.2010

10 - 12    Language use and language acquisition

Readings (available on request by email from Karin Madlener):

Diessel, Holger. 2004. A dynamic network model of constructions. From: Holger Diessel. 2004. The Acquisition of Complex Sentences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Holger Diessel and Michael Tomasello. 2005. A new look at the acquisition of relative clauses. Language 81: 1-25.

Diessel, Holger. 2007. Frequency effects in language acquisition, language use, and diachronic change. New Ideas in Psychology. 25: 108-127.

Außerdem empfohlen:

Abbot-Smith, K. & Behrens, H. 2006. How known constructions influence the acquisition of other constructions: the German passive and future constructions. Cognitive Science 30: 995-1026.

Bybee, Joan. 2010. Language, usage and cognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.