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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
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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,
