In construction morphology, complex words are seen as constructions on the word level. The
notion 'construction', a pairing of form and meaning, as developed in the theory of …

In recent years, construction-based approaches to morphology have gained ground in the
research community. This framework is characterized by the assumption that the mental …

How is grammatical knowledge encoded in mental representations? While traditional
accounts view grammar as a system of rules, construction-based theories assume …

This article presents a systematic exposition of how the basic ideas of Construction
Grammar (CxG)(Goldberg,) and the Parallel Architecture (PA) of grammar (Jackendoff,) …

An increase in frequency of a form has been argued to result in semantic extension (Bybee,
2003; Zipf, 1949). Yet, research on the acquisition of lexical semantics suggests that a form …

A book that uses domain-general learning theory to explain recurrent trajectories of
language change. In this book, Vsevolod Kapatsinski argues that language acquisition …

Both the field of cognitive linguistics as a whole and the journal Cognitive Linguistics have
taken a quantitative turn in recent years. The majority of conference presentations, articles …

Morphology is the study of the systematic relationship between the form and meaning of
complex words. Therefore, it is a central task of morphology to provide a proper account of …

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate over Likert scale experiments, in particular the
issues of how to treat acceptability judgment data (as ordinal or interval) and what statistical …

Word-based models of morphology propose that complex words are stored without
reference to morphemes. One of the questions that arises is whether information about word …