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 …

Throughout the 20s century, structuralist and generative linguists have argued that the study
of the language system (langue, competence) must be separated from the study of language …

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 …

The study of antonyms (or'opposites') in a language can provide important insight into word
meaning and discourse structures. This book provides an extensive investigation of …

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 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 …

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

Usage-based linguists and psychologists have produced a large body of empirical results
suggesting that linguistic structure is derived from language use. However, while …

Construction Grammar has gained prominence in linguistics, owing its popularity to its
inclusive approach that considers language units of varying sizes and generality as potential …

This chapter has attempted to flesh out how the notion of entrenchment fits into the
theoretical model of linguistic knowledge that goes by the name of construction grammar. Its …