Benoît Leclercq

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In Construction Grammar, how frequent is frequent enough?

It's all in the question, really. This topic must have been raised and discussed before, but I can't seem to find a good reference just yet. I'm writing this paper where I make the case for a...

21 February 2023 2,533 6 View

In CxG, where are collostructional preferences stored? Are they formal, functional or external properties of constructions?

Trying to apply key concepts from CxG to modality in English, I came across research by Boogaart (2009). He particularly looks at the modal verb 'kunnen' in Dutch and raises an interesting...

13 September 2018 3,821 9 View

Question: Construction Grammar: why sometimes use semantic/functional criteria for identifying the formal properties of a construction?

This question comes from a simple observation that really puzzles me. Constructions (in CxG) are defined as form-function pairings. My focus here is not so much on the function of constructions...

23 January 2017 1,473 11 View