The series brings together research conducted within different constructional models and
makes them available to scholars and students working in this and other related fields. The …

A sociologist and a linguist, unaware of each other's work, each assigned a technical
meaning to the term frame around 1970, based on separate usages of the word frame from …

To process language in a way that is compatible with human expectations in a
communicative interaction, we need computational representations of lexical properties that …

essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of
perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing …

Abstract The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach has a long track record in
crosslinguistic lexical semantics (Wierzbicka 1992, 1996, 1999; Goddard 1998, 2006, 2008 …

What do speakers of a language have to know, and what can they'figure out'on the basis of
that knowledge, in order for them to use their language successfully? This is the question at …

The paper is about a recently initiated pilot project which aims at the development of a
Swedish framenet as an integral part of a larger lexical resource, hence the name “Swedish …

This chapter discusses a number of important issues underlying and motivating the
development of a constructicon for German. More specifically, it presents an overview of …

Abstract Prof. Charles J. Fillmore had a lifelong interest in lexical semantics, and this
culminated in the latter part of his life in a major research project, the FrameNet Project at the …

A constructicon is on the one hand a theoretical conception of language as a structured
inventory of constructions, and on the other hand a collection of construction descriptions …