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The term ''usage-based'' was coined by [[Ronald Langacker]] in 1987.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Serafima Gettys, Patricia Bayona, Rocío Rodríguez|title=From a Usage-Based Model to Usage-Based Instruction: Testing the theory|url=http://ijehd.cgrd.org/images/vol4no2/6.pdf|journal=International Journal of Education and Human Developments|volume=4|pages=50}}</ref> Usage-based models of language have become a significant new trend in linguistics since the early 2000s.<ref name="Mengden2014" /> Influential proponents of usage-based linguistics include [[Michael Tomasello]], [[Joan Bybee]] and [[Morten H. Christiansen|Morten Christiansen]].
Together with related approaches, such as [[construction grammar]], [[emergent grammar]], and language as a [[complex adaptive system]], usage-based linguistics belongs to the wider framework of [[evolutionary linguistics]]. It studies the lifespan of linguistic units (e.g. words, suffixes), arguing that they can survive language change through frequent usage or by participating in usage-based generalizations if their syntactic, semantic or pragmatic features overlap with other similar constructions.<ref name="Christiansen&Chater_2008">{{cite journal | last1=Christiansen | first1=Morten H. | last2=Chater | first2=Nick | date=2008 | title=Language as shaped by the brain | journal=Behavioral and Brain Sciences | volume= | issue=31 | pages=489–558 | doi=10.1017/S0140525X08004998 | url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/168484/1/download10.pdf | access-date=2020-12-22 }}</ref> There is disagreement whether
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