Comparing Constructions in Romance and Germanic Languages

Editors

Carmen Mellado Blanco | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Pedro Ivorra Ordines | Centro Universitario de la Defensa (Zaragoza)

[Languages in Contrast, 26:2] Expected September 2026. ca. 150 pp.

Publishing status: In production

Table of Contents

This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes.

Introduction: Comparing constructions across Romance and Germanic languages
Towards a contrastive usage-based constructionist methodology for a crosslinguistic comparison of constructions
Reduplicative constructions and Snowclones. A corpus-based analysis of [once a N1 always a N1] in English and German
Forms and Functions of Pseudo-Tautologies: An overview, typology and corpusbased Analysis in four languages using Construction Grammar approaches
Er ist ganz verrückt nach Batman: the copula intensification construction in German, French, and Italian
Manner object constructions of satellite-framed languages with Spanish physiological verbs
From temporal meaning to relevance-oriented discourse function: a crosslinguistic study of discourse markers

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