Constructions work Page 1 Constructions work ADELE E. GOLDBERG1 Abstract This paper
provides responses to the points raised in this volume in an e¤ort to evaluate, clarify and …

Most frameworks of linguistic analysis tend to highlight phenomena of language use and/or
language knowledge such as sentence and word structure, while backgrounding or ignoring …

8. It should be noted though that this problem only arises for Kayne if he assumes, as I do,
that of is a dummy case-marker. If of is serving some other function, the argument that the …

This outstanding resource for students offers a step-by-step, practical introduction to English
syntax and syntactic principles, as developed by Chomsky over the past 15 years. Assuming …

The goal of this paper is an account of the semantics and pragmatics of exclamation. I focus
on two key observations: first, that sentence exclamations like Wow, John bakes delicious …

This dissertation is a study of the roles played by degree modifiers-functions from sets of
degrees to sets of degrees-across different constructions and languages. The immediate …

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The main claim made in this chapter is that certain linguistic phenomena that in previous
functional approaches to language were either ignored or treated as marginal play an …

In this paper, I propose a semantic account of exclamations. The account relies on an
important distinction between 'proposition exclamations'(exclamations expressed with …

À la suite des précisions apportées dans le chapitre précédent, les questions que l'on est
amené à se poser se rapportent au nombre et à l'identité des niveaux de phrasé qui …