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Clay Beckner (Clayton D. Beckner)

University of New Mexico

Department of Linguistics

MSC 03 2130

Albuquerque, NM 87131

Email, given backwards word-by-word: edu DOT unm AT coogle

 

About:

 

I am a Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at the University of New Mexico.

 

 

Selected publications:

 

Usage-based theory. (2010). In Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis, 827-855. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  [with Joan Bybee].  

 

A usage-based account of constituency and reanalysis. (2009). Language Learning 59, Supplement 1: 27-46.  [with Joan Bybee].  Link here to the podcast of the conference version of this paper, from the Language as a Complex Adaptive System conference in Ann Arbor (Nov 7-9, 2008).

 

Language is a complex adaptive system. (2009). Language Learning 59, Supplement 1: 1-26.  [with Richard Blythe, Joan Bybee, Morten Christiansen, William Croft, Nick Ellis, John Holland, Jinyun Ke, Diane Larsen-Freeman, & Tom Schoenemann].  

 

Selected conference presentations and posters:

 

The roles of acquisition and usage in morphological and phonological change. (2009). 35th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, CA, February 14-16, 2009. [with Andrew Wedel]

 

Quantifying semantic shift for reconstructing language families. (2009). 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco. [with William Croft, Logan Sutton, Jon Wilkins, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, & Dan Hruschka.]

 

Modeling contributions of usage versus acquisition to language change.  Paper presented at the First Annual Workshop on Complex Systems and Language, Tucson, Arizona, April 25-26, 2008.  [with Andrew Wedel]

 

 

 

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