Patterns of Language - A Population Model for Language Structure
<|reference_start|>Patterns of Language - A Population Model for Language Structure: A key problem in the description of language structure is to explain its contradictory properties of specificity and generality, the contrasting poles of formulaic prescription and generative productivity. I argue that this is possible if we accept analogy and similarity as the basic mechanisms of structural definition. As a specific example I discuss how it would be possible to use analogy to define a generative model of syntactic structure.<|reference_end|>
@article{freeman1996patterns,
    title={Patterns of Language - A Population Model for Language Structure},
    author={Robert John Freeman},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9608004},
    year={1996},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9608004},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}