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Lexical representation and constructions: bridging the gap between the constructional and process models of grammar

Functional and cognitive models appear to be characterized by an important degree of complementariness which goes well beyond their shared concern with language use and the cognitive dimension of grammatical categories to more central issues such as the relationship between lexicon and grammar. Within this context, this talk outlines my own views on how constructional and process models may be fruitfully combined. As a first approximation, I discuss three major problems that affect lexicon and grammar within the context of a moderate functional theory like Role and Reference Grammar (RRG): (i) the role of constructions, (ii) the nature of primitives, and (iii) the non-propositional status of some representations. Then, in order to provide answers to these three important questions I sketch a theory that combines insights from the two approaches such that I posit what I have termed a ‘ construction’ as one of the central modules of the semantic component of the theory.

cognitive linguistics; Functional Grammar; grammatical constructions; meonymy; metaphor

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