Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English

Languageusersarecreaturesofhabitwithatendencytore-uselinguisticmaterialthattheyhaveproducedorheardbefore.Inotherwords，linguisticpatternsandtokens，onceused，persistinspokendiscourse.ThebookexploresthedeterminantsofthispersistenceincorpusdataofspokenEnglish，drawingonregressionanalysesofavarietyoffunctional，discourse-functional，cognitive，psycholinguistic，andexternalfactors.Inprovidingavariationist-probabilisticframeworkforexaminingthewaysinwhichdifferentinternalandexternalfactorsinfluencespeakers'linguisticchoices，thestudyultimatelycontributestoatheoryofhowspokenlanguageworks.