Constructing a language : a usage-based theory of language acquisition /
Michael Tomasello.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
- viii, 388 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-371) and index.
1. A Puzzle and a Hypothesis *2. Biological and Cultural Inheritance *3. Joint Attention and Cultural Learning *4. Linguistic Communication and Symbolic Representation *5. Linguistic Constructions and Event Cognition *6. Discourse and Representational Redescription *7. Cultural Cognition * References * Index