Selected Papers from Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy 4
Edited by Thorsten Piske and Thomas Herbst
Special issue of Pedagogical Linguistics 7:1 (2026) v, 219 pp.
Thomas Herbst
List of John Benjamins publications in which Thomas Herbst is involved.
Titles
A Construction Grammar of the English Language: CASA – a Constructionist Approach to Syntactic Analysis
Thomas Herbst and Thomas Hoffmann
The present book provides an introduction to the linguistic model of Construction Grammar, offering a full analysis of the grammar of the English language. It covers all levels of morpho-syntactic form-meaning units: including sentence types, tense and aspect, argument structure, phrases, idioms,… read more[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice, 5] 2024. xv, 315 pp.
2026 Pedagogical construction grammar — the fashion of the day? Selected Papers from Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy 4, Piske, Thorsten and Thomas Herbst (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
This paper provides a short introduction to Construction Grammar (CxG). It first very briefly outlines how linguistic theory has developed over time. Then it describes similarities and differences between the usage-based approach of CxG and Chomsky’s generative approach to the study of language.… read more
2022 Constructions, generalizations, and the unpredictability of language Construction Grammar across Borders, Torrent, Tiago Timponi, Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano (eds.), pp. 55–94 | Chapter
Attempts at predicting syntactic behavior from semantic or other generalizations are often unsatisfactory. It is argued that the notion of competition as used by Goldberg (2019) can serve as an explanation for unpredictability in language because established formulations that are preferred over… read more
2020 Constructions, generalizations, and the unpredictability of language: Moving towards colloconstruction grammar Construction Grammar across Borders, Torrent, Tiago Timponi, Ely Edison da Silva Matos and Natália Sathler Sigiliano (eds.), pp. 56–95 | Article
Attempts at predicting syntactic behavior from semantic or other generalizations are often unsatisfactory. It is argued that the notion of competition as used by Goldberg (2019) can serve as an explanation for unpredictability in language because established formulations that are preferred over… read more
2020 The issue of specifying slots in argument structure constructions in terms of form and meaning The Wealth and Breadth of Construction-Based Research, Colleman, Timothy, Frank Brisard, Astrid De Wit, Renata Enghels, Nikos Koutsoukos, Tanja Mortelmans and María Sol Sansiñena (eds.), pp. 135–147 | Article
In Construction Grammar theory, constructions are generally described as form-meaning pairings. It will be argued here that the formal specifications of some abstract constructions are so vague that the notion of form needs to be discussed rather critically. We aim to demonstrate how, in the… read more
2009 Valency – item-specificity and idiom principle Exploring the Lexis–Grammar Interface, Römer-Barron, Ute and Rainer Schulze (eds.), pp. 49–68 | Article
This article discusses the role of valency as a lexico-grammatical phenomenon which can only be fully accounted for in terms of such concepts as Sinclair’s idiom principle. It is argued that insights from corpus linguistics and foreign language linguistics can be accommodated in cognitive… read more
2009 14. Item-specific syntagmatic relations in dictionaries Lexicography in the 21st Century: In honour of Henning Bergenholtz, Nielsen, Sandro and Sven Tarp (eds.), pp. 281–308 | Article
1997 Dubbing and the Dubbed text — style and cohesion Text Typology and Translation, Trosborg, Anna (ed.), pp. 291–308 | Article
1987 A Proposal for a Valency Dictionary of English A Spectrum of Lexicography, Ilson, Robert F. (ed.), pp. 29–48 | Article