Table of contents
Preface
VII
Introduction: Investigating the constructicon
1
Part I.Analytical perspectives on grammatical constructions
The role of verbs and verb classes in identifying German SEARCH-constructions
17
Embodied motivations for abstract in and on constructions
53
Doing Tsukahara and the Epley in a cross-linguistic perspective
77
The role of inferencing in the interpretation of two expressive speech act constructions
109
Exploring inter-constructional relations in the constructicon: A view from Contrastive (Cognitive) Construction Grammar
135
Part II.From applications to theory and back
Revisiting the English resultative family of constructions: A unifying account
175
The family of German dative constructions
205
Motivation behind the extended senses of the Polish ditransitive construction
241
The English “conative” as a family of constructions: Towards a usage-based approach
277
Multimodal constructional resemblance: The case of English circular motion constructions
301
Index
339
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