Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language (Paperback)  | Released: 01 Oct 2006

This volume collects three decades of articles by the distinguished linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles essentially argue for the importance off frequency of use as a factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure. Her work has been very influential for a broad range of researchers in linguistics, particularly in discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, phonology, phonetics, and historical linguistics.About the Author: Joan Bybee is Professor of Linguistics, University of New Mexico