Structural priming can inform syntactic analyses of partially grammaticalized constructions
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1Department of English,Purdue University,West Lafayette,IN 47907-2038.ejfranci@purdue.eduhttp://web.ics.purdue.edu/~ejfranci/ejfrancis.htm.
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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