Verbs (V), nouns (N), adjectives (A) and prepositions (P) constitute the four major word
classes. The present study deals with nouns and their projections (noun phrases). The …

What do speakers of a language have to know, and what can they'figure out'on the basis of
that knowledge, in order for them to use their language successfully? This is the question at …

This book addresses one of the most pervasive questions in historical linguistics–why
variation becomes stable rather than being eliminated–by revisiting the so far neglected …

In this article we tackle the issue of diachronic variation in constructional semantics through
an exploration of the (recent) semantic history of the well-established English ditransitive or …

This article discusses the plausibility of a correlation or even a causal relation between two
phenomena that can be observed in the history of English ditransitives. The changes …

In this paper, we address the question of how to model syntactic alternations in Diachronic
Construction Grammar terms. We argue that positing horizontal links between constructions …

The past ten to fifteen years have witnessed a steady increase, within Cognitive Linguistics
and other cognitively oriented approaches to language, of the interest in language variation …

Construction semantics combines usage-based construction grammar and frame semantics,
as set out in the FrameNet project. This volume models the semantic properties of …

What is the role of variationist linguistics within Cognitive Linguistics, and what does
Cognitive Linguistics have to offer to variationist linguistics? In this chapter, we will argue …

The integration of three main dimensions of linguistic usage and variation–formal, social and
conceptual–can be seen as a major ambition of the Cognitive Sociolinguistics enterprise …