11.3 Prefabs and the lexicon

Automation

• phonetic reduction (cf. also Bybee & Scheibman (1999))

Constituency

• pauses tend occur after frequent chunks rather than at syntactic boundaries
• are learned, and accessed as units

Source for lexicalization and grammaticalization

• Discourse markers
• Tense and aspect markers

References

Bybee, Joan & Joanne Scheibman. 1999. The effect of usage on degrees of constituency: The reduction of don’t in English. Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter 37(4). 575–596.