Syntactic Productivity
Syntactic Productivity
Syntactic Productivity
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<strong>Syntactic</strong> productivity<br />
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1. The language user’s ability to generate and understand<br />
sentences never encountered before.<br />
2. The ability of a syntactic pattern or argument structure<br />
construction to be extended to new lexical verbs.<br />
1. = Regularity Concept<br />
2. = Extensibility Concept<br />
<strong>Productivity</strong> is a matter of how available a pattern is for the<br />
sanction of novel expressions (Langacker 2000: 26<br />
[emphasis added]).<br />
Bergen Jóhanna Barðdal June 5, 2008