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A constructional network in appositive space

The concept of apposition remains an obscure notion despite the fact that it has figured prominently in the history of grammar...

Keywords: apposition, appositive, constructions, radial, prototype

03/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

A constructional approach to verb-initial constructions in Modern Hebrew

In this paper I argue that previous analyses of a class of inverted sentences in Modern Hebrew capture frequent correlations, but not hard constraints...

Keywords: Modern Hebrew, information packaging, thetic, categorical, constructions

07/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

I'm are what I'm are: The acquisition of first-person singular present BE

The present study investigates the development of am in the speech of one English-speaking child, Scarlett (aged 4;6–5;6)...

Keywords: BE, constructions, errors, input, usage-based

03/2007 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de Gruyter

The convergent evolution of radial constructions: French and English deictics and existentials

English deictic and existential there-constructions have been analyzed as constituting a single radial category of form?meaning pairings, related through motivated links, such as metaphor (Lakoff 1987)...

Keywords: French, radial categories, constructions, deictics, existentials