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Divided into three parts, this book investigates the nature of generalization in language and examines how language is known by adults and acquired by children.... » 

Divided into three parts, this book investigates the nature of generalization in language and examines how language is known by adults and acquired by children. It looks at how constructions are learned, the relation between their forms and functions, and how cross-linguistic and language-internal generalizations about them can be explained. «