in language, differing in granularity but not in basic principles.

Bybee's Dynamic Usage-based framework

Bybee's work greatly inspired the creation of usage-based models of language. Bybee's model makes predictions about and explains synchronic, diachronic and typological patterns within languages, such as which variants will occur in which contexts, what forms they will take, and about their diachronic consequences. Using the linguistic phenomenon of splits (when a word starts to show

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