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This is a summary of a book about linguistics by Joan Bybee. She argues that frequency of use is an important factor in the analysis and explanation of language structure. Her work has been influential for a broad range of researchers in linguistics.
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.