For a long time, linguists more or less denied the existence of individual differences in
grammatical knowledge. While recent years have seen an explosion of research on …

What does the future hold for Construction Grammar? What are the most promising future
avenues for research on constructions? This paper addresses the development of …

The aim of this study is to further contribute to the ongoing debate regarding the nature of
“morphosyntactic lifespan change,” defined here as observable shifts in the grammatical …

Grammaticalization has proven to be an insightful approach to semantic-morphosyntactic
change within and across languages. Many studies, however, rely on assessing the large …

Linguists have typically studied language change at the aggregate level of speech
communities, yet key mechanisms of change such as analogy and automation operate …

The present study deals with variation in the use of lexico-grammatical patterns and
emphasizes the need to embrace individual variation. Targeting the pattern that's adj (as in …

Modal verbs encode meanings and functions with a strong intersubjective load. Likelihood
and certainty, obligation, permission, ability–all these notions connect speakers and hearers …

The article discusses the evolution and current state of Construction Grammar (C× G) since
its inception in the 1980s at UC Berkeley. It has expanded to various languages and …

Three and a half decades after the publication of Fillmore et al.(1988), Construction
Grammar is coming off age. The first euphoric period of growth, consolidation and …

What does the future hold for Construction Grammar? What are the most promising future
avenues for research on constructions? This paper addresses the development of …