The advent of usage‐/exemplar‐based approaches has resulted in a major change in the
theoretical landscape of linguistics, but also in the range of methodologies that are brought …

This chapter has three objectives. First, it argues in favor of more rigorous definitions of the
term 'phraseologism'on the basis of six dimensions and exemplifies these dimensions for …

In den letzten Jahren ist die Konstruktionsgrammatik zu einem zentralen
Forschungsparadigma geworden. Sie hat das Ziel, eine allgemeine Theorie der …

Cognitive Linguistics (CL) is an approach to the study of language informed by both
linguistics and psychology. It describes how language interfaces with cognition, and how it …

The present study is a corpus-based investigation of syntactic priming, ie the tendency to
reuse syntactic constructions. On the basis of data from the ICE-GB corpus, I analyze two …

The most frequent statistics in corpus linguistics are frequencies of occurrence and
frequencies of co-occurrence of two or more linguistic variables. However, such frequencies …

In Construction Grammar, the ultimate grammatical unit is the construction, a
conventionalized form-meaning pairing. We present interrelated evidence from three …

Collostructional analysis is a corpus-based quantitative method of measuring the mutual
attraction of lexemes and constructions (cf. Stefanowitsch and Gries 2003) which has gained …

This chapter introduces the main facets of the notion of entrenchment and highlights its role
as a potential mediator between linguistic and psychological approaches to the study of …

Entrenchment is a fundamentally cognitive notion, referring to the degree to which a
linguistic structure of any degree of complexity or schematicity forms an established unit of …