Summary Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse
family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, ie form-meaning …

All languages provide ways to talk about events and their participants; this function is
typically assumed in great part by verbs. It is precisely for this reason that, more so than …

Languages are subject to change, but they are also stable. The linguistic knowledge of the
members of speech communities is similar, but also differs in many ways. Language use …

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 …

After half a century of self-imposed exile from the cognitive scene, cognitive linguists are
putting language back on stage: language is no longer considered a highly specialized and …

When puzzled by the nature of a physical object, human beings will turn it over and look at it
from a new angle to get an idea of what it is and how it can be used. Also, if we are not quite …

This paper discusses a variety of potential shortcomings of most of the most widely-used
association measures as used in collocation research and collostructional analyses. To …

In recent years, linguists have increasingly turned to the cognitive sciences to broaden their
investigation into the roots and development of language. With the advent of cognitive …

Ever since the first studies introducing collostructional analysis in general and collexeme
analysis in particular, these methods have been widely used for the analysis of …