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Open Access April 29, 2024

A sisterhood of constructions? A structural priming approach to modelling links in the network of Objoid Constructions

Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt, Laetitia Van Driessche

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A central aim of Construction Grammar is to model links within the construct-i-con. This paper investigates three constructions that share one property: an atypical element in the object slot. The constructions are therefore not prototypically transitive. Structural priming (implemented with an automatic maze variant of self-paced reading) is used to test hypotheses on the relation among the Reaction Objoid ( She smiled her thanks ), the Cognate Objoid ( She smiled a sweet smile or He told a sly tale ), and the Superlative Objoid ( She smiled her sweetest ) Construction, and between two variants of the latter ( They worked (at) their hardest ). Results support transitivity as gradient: intransitive COCs prime the ROC and the SOC, whereas COCs with transitives only prime the ROC. For variants of the SOC, we find evidence of asymmetric priming with the bare SOC priming the at- SOC. Within-construction priming effects in the SOC are of greater magnitude than those with the at- SOC and the latter are weaker than those of the COC and of a rather different nature than those from the ROC. This suggests that speakers, rather than creating a constructeme between the bare and the at- SOC, store distinct but closely related constructions on a cline of transitivity.

Publicly Available July 23, 2019

Corrigendum to: Backwards time: Causal catachresis and its influence on viewpoint flow

Douglass Virdee

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Starting with Volume 35 (2024), Cognitive Linguistics　is transformed into a Diamond Open Access journal thanks to our subscribers participating in the Subscribe to Open (S2O) project. All current content will be published under a Creative Commons License (CC-BY 4.0) at no cost to authors and will be freely available to readers.

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Cognitive Linguistics presents a forum for linguistic research of all kinds on the interaction between language and cognition. The journal focuses on language as an instrument for organizing, processing and conveying information. Cognitive Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal of international scope and seeks to publish only works that represent a significant advancement to the theory or methods of cognitive linguistics, or that present an unknown or understudied phenomenon.

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the structural characteristics of natural language categorization (such as prototypicality, cognitive models, metaphor, and imagery);
the functional principles of linguistic organization, as illustrated by iconicity;
the conceptual interface between syntax and semantics;
the experiential background of language-in-use, including the cultural background;
the relationship between language and thought, including matters of universality and language specificity

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