I work in a developing syntactic model called Construction Grammar (CxG). In CxG, rules of syntactic combination (descriptions of local trees) are directly associated with interpretive and use ...

Cognitive Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field that examines language as an integral facet of human cognition. It posits that our understanding and use of language emerges from bodily experiences ...

Construction grammar grew out of the need to model the whole of language instead of distinguishing core linguistic expressions from peripheral ones (Fillmore et al., 1988; Kay and Fillmore, 1999), and ...