2021/01/01 by Wojciech Lewandowski · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation #Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
paper · doi:10.1515/ling-2020-0264
openalex publication_date 2021/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Abstract Many researchers seem to think that Construction Grammar posits the existence of only wholly idiosyncratic constructions. However, this misconception betrays a deep misunderstanding of the approach because it glosses over the fact that constructions rarely if ever emerge sui generis . Rather, Construction Grammar aims to balance the fact that some linguistic uses cannot be fully predicted from other well-established uses with the fact that extensions of a construction, while not predictable, are motivated by other senses in the constructional network. This paper illustrates this idea by providing an analysis of the Spanish completive reflexive marker se .