This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge. John
Taylor challenges the conventional notion that a language can be understood in terms of the …

Attempts at predicting syntactic behavior from semantic or other generalizations are often
unsatisfactory. It is argued that the notion of competition as used by can serve as an …

This article outlines why valency theory and Goldberg's theory of argument structure
constructions should be combined. In the light of empirical valency research it is argued that …

In this chapter, we provide an overview of quantitative approaches to co-occurrence data.
We begin with a brief terminological overview of different types of co-occurrence that are …

Müller and Wechsler (M&W) argue that similarities exist in how lexical and phrasal
approaches represent and account for argument structure, eg, they “agree with (Goldberg …

Abstract Language models for text-to-image generation can output good quality images
when referential aspects of pictures are evaluated. The generation of creative images is not …

This chapter argues in favour of not regarding collocation and valency as strictly discrete
categories but rather seeing them as near neighbours in the lexis-grammar continuum …

This paper shows that low-level generalisations in argument structure constructions are
crucial to understanding the concept of alternation: low-level generalisations inform and …

Complex-transitive argument structures have received a large amount of attention from
syntacticians of both formalist and cognitive-functional orientations. To account for …

This is a reply to a commentary by Stefan Gries on a paper published by us in this journal in
2013. We focus on explaining the inadequacy of p-values of the Fisher Exact test as a …