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  • The Constructicon

    Taxonomies and Networks

    Series series Elements in Construction 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 construction grammar, developed by Berkeley linguists in the 1990s, the constructicon is an inheritance network of taxonomically related grammatical patterns. However, recent research in usage-based linguistics has ... Read more

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  • The Grammar Network

    How Linguistic Structure Is Shaped by Language Use

    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 impact on the study of morphology and lexical semantics, it is only recently that researchers have taken an explicit network approach to the study of syntax. This innovative study presents a dynamic network model of ... Read more

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    The Acquisition of Argument Structure

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