Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Graeme Trousdale develop an approach to language change
based on construction grammar. Construction grammar is a theory of signs construed at the …

Traditional accounts of language postulate two basic components: words stored in a lexicon,
and rules that govern how they can be combined into meaningful sentences, a grammar …

It is one of the central claims of construction grammar that constructions are organized in
some kind of network, commonly referred to as the constructicon. In the classical model of …

Summary Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse
family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, ie form-meaning …

This book attempts to examine the concept of semantic frames, one of the most important
concepts of Cognitive Linguistics, and place it in the overall context of linguistics and …

. Introduction is volume has grown out of a very productive workshop on recent Advances in
Diachronic Construction Grammar held at the 50th SLE meeting in September, 2017 in …

Mainstream grammatical theory and traditional grammaticography concentrate on single
languages or varieties, which are conceptualised as pre-existing, distinct entities and …

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 …

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 investigates the use of phrasal verbs by French-speaking foreign learners of
English, using spoken and written learner corpus data and comparing them against similar …