In den letzten Jahren ist die Konstruktionsgrammatik zu einem zentralen
Forschungsparadigma geworden. Sie hat das Ziel, eine allgemeine Theorie der …

1Above all, I'd like to thank Paul Kay for hours of discussion and useful feedback at every
stage in the seemingly endless process of writing this chapter. I'm also grateful to Chuck …

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 …

This article investigates the role of coercion and contextual background information in
influencing acceptability judgments. Focusing on data from English resultative constructions …

1 Background Modern grammatical research, 1 at least in the realms of morphosyntax,
includes a number of largely nonoverlapping communities that have surprisingly little to do …

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 …

1.1 Why Construction Grammar 1 1.2 What is Construction Grammar 2 1.3 What is a
construction 4 1.3. 1 Definitions of construction 4 1.3. 2 Simple words as constructions 6 1.3 …

This chapter provides an overview of the theory of Construction Grammar and its
corresponding sister theory Frame Semantics, both developed at the University of California …

One of the most intriguing features of languages is that speakers can produce novel
grammatical utterances that they have never heard before. Consequently, most linguists …

Attempts at predicting syntactic behavior from semantic or other generalizations are often
unsatisfactory. It is argued that the notion of competition as used by can serve as an …