Download or read book Morphosyntactic Persistence in Spoken English written by Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language users are creatures of habit with a tendency to re-use morphosyntactic material that they have produced or heard before. This book explores the determinants of this persistence, drawing on regression analyses of a variety of functional, discourse-functional, cognitive, psycholinguistic, and external factors.