Constructions

Building a Research Constructicon

Late Modern English (1800-now)
Adjective Attributive construction
English
Adjective Phrase
Late Modern English (1800-now)
Adjective Predicative construction
English
cool (temperature) construction
Informal English
Cool! exclamative construction
Late Modern English (1800-now)
Keep a cool head construction

Chinese Mathematics

Literary Chinese
Do operation with operand1 on operand2 construction

Comparing constructions cross-linguistically — Connecting constructicons

Late Modern English (1800-now)
Adjectival-with-PARTNER Construction
Late Modern English (1800-now)
Adjective Construction
Late Modern English (1800-now)
Comparative Construction
Late Modern English (1800-now)
General Postmodifier-of-Adjective Construction
Late Modern English (1800-now)
More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 1)
Late Modern English (1800-now)
More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 2)
Late Modern English (1800-now)
More-Than-Comparison Construction (type 3)
Late Modern English (1800-now)
Most-/Least-Construction
Late Modern English (1800-now)
Premodifier-of-Adjective Construction
Late Modern English (1800-now)
Superlative Construction

Constructions beyond the sentence: text-structuring in (esp.) sixteenth-century historiographical texts

Written (historiography) Italian of the 16th century in Francesco Guicciardini's "Storia d'Italia"
Relative Topic Shift Construction

German verbs with particles or prefixes in language change: Form, meaning, and syntax

Middle High German, 12th century
Präfixverbkonstruktion (Handlung)
Middle High German, 12th century
Präfixverbkonstruktion (lokalistische Tätigkeit)
Middle High German, 12th century
Präfixverbkonstruktion (Tätigkeit)

How are German NP1 + auf/an + NP2 constructions expressed in English, Polish, and Ukrainian, and to what extent do these languages employ spatial prepositions to convey similar functions and meanings? What are the cross-linguistic similarities and differences in form and meaning of these constructions?

German
Angriff auf
Late Modern English (1800-now)
assassination attempt on
Late Modern English (1800-now)
assault on
Polish
atak na + ACC.
Late Modern English (1800-now)
attack on/upon
German
Attentat auf
German
Ausblick auf
Late Modern English (1800-now)
concentration on
German
Hass auf
Late Modern English (1800-now)
hatred towards
German
Hinweis auf
Polish
koncentracja na + LOC.
German
Konzentration auf
Polish
napad na + ACC.
Polish
nienawiść do + GEN.
Standard High German
NP1 + auf + NP2 & NP1 + an + NP2 constructions
German
Satire auf
Late Modern English (1800-now)
satire on
Polish
satyra na + ACC.
German
Schuss auf
Late Modern English (1800-now)
shot at/to
Polish
strzał w + ACC.
Late Modern English (1800-now)
tip on/ reference to
Late Modern English (1800-now)
view on
Polish
widok na + ACC.
Polish
wskazówka na + ACC./odniesienia do + GEN.
German
X an Y
German
X auf Y
Polish
zamach na + ACC.
German
Überfall auf
German
Übergriff auf
Ukrainian
вид на + ACC.
Ukrainian
вказівка на + ACC.
Ukrainian
замах на + ACC.
Ukrainian
концентрація на + LOC.
Ukrainian
набіг/наліт/напад на + ACC.
Ukrainian
напад на + ACC.
Ukrainian
напад на + Acc.
Ukrainian
ненависть до + GEN.
Ukrainian
постріл в + ACC.
Ukrainian
сатира на + ACC.

How can multimodal phenomena be modelled in Construction Grammar?

Spoken American English
Had it up to here with (+ physical height gesture)
Spoken American English
Had it up to here with (+ throat cut gesture)
Spoken American English
Had it up to here with (meso-construction)
Spoken American English
This close to V-ing construction
Spoken American English
This close to V-ing construction

Identifying semantic sub-constructions of the V-ing pattern

Late Modern English (1800-now)
come + [noise/manner of movement] V-ing

Link CASA (a Construction Grammar Approach to Syntactic Analysis) and the Research Constructicon

Latin
Adjective
Late Modern English (1800-now)
Attribute Construction (Attr: Adj)
Late Modern English (1800-now)
Ditransitive Construction (Obj: NP)
Late Modern English (1800-now)
Genitive-NP Construction

POU in Haitian Creole

Haitian Creole
POU-beneficiary construction

Recipient marking in Cairo Arabic

Cairo Arabic
Ditransitive construction

Representation and processing of constructions in the brain

Late Modern English (1800-now)
Argument structure construction
Late Modern English (1800-now)
Caused-Motion construction
Late Modern English (1800-now)
Ditransitive construction
Late Modern English (1800-now)
Resultative construction
Late Modern English (1800-now)
Transitive construction

The relative role of verb position and additional morphological markers in comprehension

Spoken Peninsular Spanish
Potentially ambiguous object relative clause