kasutustavast
Kasutustavast is an Estonian-language term used to describe usage-based approaches in linguistics and related fields. These approaches treat language knowledge as emerging from actual language use, with patterns learned from frequency, distribution, and context rather than from a fixed set of abstract rules.
In practice, kasutustavast emphasizes corpus data, statistical models, and exemplar-based representations. It argues that speakers' mental
Applications include the study of lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology; the development of language resources and
Relation to other concepts involves contrasting usage-based accounts with traditional rule-based grammars and examining links to