Cognitive linguists and psychologists have often argued that language is best understood as
an association network; however while the network view of language has had a significant …

Why our use of language is highly creative yet also constrained We use words and phrases
creatively to express ourselves in ever-changing contexts, readily extending language …

Research in Construction Grammar assumes no strict separation between syntax and the
lexicon. However, recent work by Goldberg (1995, 2006) shows that there is indeed a …

For the last 25 years,(type) coercion—and related notions such as type shifting (Partee and
Rooth 1983), accommodation (Goldberg 1995), enriched composition (Jackendoff 1997) …

Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers'
minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguistic knowledge …

This chapter highlights the fundamental assumptions shared by all constructionist
approaches, distinguishing them from mainstream generative grammar. In particular …

Language demonstrates structure while also showing considerable variation at all levels:
languages differ from one another while still being shaped by the same principles; …

This book is based on the results of research in language typology, and motivated by the
need for a theory to explain them. Croft proposes intimate links between syntactic and …

Martin Hilpert combines construction grammar and advanced corpus-based methodology
into a new way of studying language change. Constructions are generalizations over …

All languages provide ways to talk about events and their participants; this function is
typically assumed in great part by verbs. It is precisely for this reason that, more so than …