Readings

Question 1

tomasello

Answer 1

bridge the gap between functional linguists and psychology

Question 1

goldberg

Answer 1

argues against verb being the sole source of info about transfer

Question 2

chompsky

Answer 2

let’s make the generativist rules more restrictive because they’re too broad (don’t account for exceptions)

Question 3

updahyay

Answer 3

grammatical gender agreement in nepali

Question 4

haspelmath

Answer 4

recipient and theme; which one acts more like the direct object

Question 5

bybee and thompson

Answer 5

token v. type frequency and how it leads to reducing and conserving effects