Laurence Romain
List of John Benjamins publications in which Laurence Romain is involved.
2026 Contingency and prototypicality: Observations on the learning of argument structure constructions Selected Papers from Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy 4, Piske, Thorsten and Thomas Herbst (eds.), pp. 147–188 | Article
This paper offers some observations on the learning of argument structure constructions as well as recommendations for teaching argument structure constructions to intermediate to advanced learners, notably argument structure constructions that could be considered to alternate such as the… read more
2025 The types of cues that help you learn: Pedagogical implications of a computational simulation on learning the English tense/aspect system from exposure Pedagogical Linguistics 6:1, pp. 53–77 | Article
Despite a considerable amount of research conducted on the development of tense/aspect (TA) usage in English by second language (L2) learners, nuances in uses of TAs remain elusive to many L2 learners of English: the grammatical accounts proposed appear difficult to apply as they are either too… read more
2024 Ruled by construal? Framing article choice in English Constructions and Frames 16:1, pp. 1–29 | Article
In cognitive linguistics, grammatical structure is known to be representative of meaning. This is also true of English articles. In this paper, we argue that the choice of article, when the grammar allows it, is dependent on the wider discourse context and most importantly on how the speaker… read more
2017 Measuring the alternation strength of causative verbs: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the interaction between verb, theme and construction Current trends in analyzing syntactic variation, De Cuypere, Ludovic, Clara Vanderschueren and Gert de Sutter (eds.), pp. 219–242 | Article
This paper presents a method for quantitative and qualitative analyses of the causative alternation in English, where verbs may alternate between a transitive (causative) construction (Santa crinkled his eyes) and an intransitive (non-causative) construction (His eyes crinkled). The aim of this… read more