The Emergent Lexicon

By Joan L. Bybee. 2007

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Digging up the building blocks of language: Age-of-acquisition effects for multiword phrases (2017, background): “This idea is found in linguistic approaches that emphasize the role of constructions in language (Culicover & Jackendoff, 2005; Goldberg, 2006; Langacker, 1987) and is advocated in single-systemmodels of language which posit that all linguistic material – whether it is words or larger sequences – is”
A Usage‐Based Account of Constituency and Reanalysis (2009, result): “…sequences such as for some reason and dark night represent the conventional way of expressing certain notions, in contrast with semantically plausible (but unlikely) s t r i n g s p u l l p u l l s t r i n g s Figure 1 The connections between an idiom and its component words (Bybee, 1998).”
Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper (2009, background): “…of the interactions of grammar and lexicon in usage, which includes knowledge of which words commonly go into which constructions, leads to a conception of lexicon and grammar as highly intertwined rather than separate (Bybee, 1998a; Ellis, 2008b; Goldberg, 2006; Halliday, 1994; Langacker, 1987).”