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In:Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar
Edited by Evie Coussé, Peter Andersson and Joel Olofsson
[Constructional Approaches to Language 21] 2018
► pp. 3–19

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Grammaticalization meets Construction Grammar

Opportunities, challenges and potential incompatibilities

Published online: 23 May 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/cal.21.c1
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Construction grammar comes with a focus on form and meaning
  • 3.Construction grammar and syntagmatic contexts
  • 4.Construction grammar and paradigmatic relations
  • 5. Construction grammar and its cognitive commitment
  • 6.Areas where grammaticalization and construction grammar might not meet
  • 7. Overview of the contributions
    • 7.1Verb constructions
    • 7.2 Noun constructions
    • 7.3Constructions at sentence level
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