Is our mental grammar just a set of constructions?
Is our mental grammar just a set of constructions?
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- Hinzen W. Is our mental grammar just a set of constructions? Commentary on Evans 2014. Language. 2017; 92(1):203-7. DOI: 10.1353/lan.2016.0021
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According to this book, ‘each of us carries around in our heads a “mental grammar” far more impressive than any written grammar’ (6); this grammar is made up of ‘abstract rules’ that can generate a ‘seemingly infinite number of novel sentences’ (12).