This article combines ideas and concepts deriving from grammaticalization studies,
cognitive linguistics and construction grammar. Specifically, it takes three important ideas …

Using a cohort sequential quantitative design and evaluative features drawn from Systemic
Functional Grammar, this study investigates diachronic variation in linguists' use of …

A estabilidade do sistema linguístico na fala adulta é uma questão relativamente preterida
em pesquisas linguísticas, quando não tomada como um fato indisputado. Dentro do …

In this work, the symmetric comparative correlatives attested in the journalist Rubén Amón's
speech and writing are analysed. The interest of these constructions lies in the fact that they …

The present paper discusses the concept of gradience and fuzziness from the perspective of
Diachronic Construction Grammar. It does so by investigating verb-attached PPs in the …

Research in the field of language contact has documented a vast variety of language contact
settings and phenomena. In regards to the settings, researchers have, for instance, looked at …

Abstract Language is ubiquitous and vital in our world. Yet, do we really know what this
phenomenon is? How would we recognise language if we encountered it in unusual …

This chapter investigates passive constructions with an expletive subject, labelled as
impersonal passives. The English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus (ENPC) provides material for …

The question how we can reliably estimate the lexical diversity of a particular text (collection)
has o 昀琀 en been asked by linguists and literary scholars alike. This short paper …

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 …