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 …

This book presents a model of event structure for the analysis of aspectual constructions and
argument structure constructions in English and other languages. Representing the …

The main objective of the current monograph is two-fold. On the one hand, the present study
seeks to give a coherent account of the locative alternation in English. A class of verbs …

This article proposes the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM) as an explanatorily adequate
model for the investigation of meaning construction at all levels of linguistic description …

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 …

This paper offers an alternative analysis of Goldberg's (1995) account of communication
verbs appearing in the ditransitive construction. Based on a more finely-grained frame …

The aim of this volume is to determine to what degree grammatical constructions can be
employed for cross-linguistic analysis. 1 A cursory review of the Construction Grammar …

Any attempt to characterize valency patterns within and across languages confronts the
phenomenon of verb or valency classes: sets of semantically-related verbs sharing a range …

Das in diesem Beitrag vorgeschlagene Netzwerk aus Resultativkonstruktionen
unterschiedlichen Abstraktionsgrades vereinigt die Vorteile von Goldbergs (1995, 2006) und …

Abstract Psychological verbs (" psych-verbs'') such as admire, amaze, fear, and frighten,
have long been known to exhibit marked syntactic behavior in many languages. This …