Event Programme 1

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Constructions and Figures Symposium at the University of Waterloo 28 & 29 May 2026 featuring Jeanne Fahnestock, @adelegoldberg.bsky.social and @congramqueen.bsky.social. #rhetoric, #linguistics, #constructiongrammar @uwaterlooarts.bsky.social @uwaterloo.ca @uw-english.bsky.social

Constructing Idiolect: Cognitive Linguistics and the challenges of cross-genre authorship By Lucia Busso

Fantastic new AIFL Blog post from Lucia Busso on cognitive linguistic / construction grammar approaches to cross-genre authorship analysis aifl-blog.com/constructing... #linguistics #idiolect, #cognitivelinguistics #constructiongrammar #genre #authorship

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New book out in the CAL Series: "The Development of the Chinese Cleft Construction: A diachronic constructional approach" by Fangqiong Zhan
doi.org/10.1075/cal.41 #ConstructionGrammar

Great new article by @geryon.bsky.social. "Rhetorical Figures, Grammatical Constructions, and Form/Meaning Alliances in Pretrained Language Models," #rhetoric, #constructiongrammar, #linguistics
pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/articl...

pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/articl...

My entry "Families of Constructions" is now published in Elsevier's Reference Collection in Social Sciences (International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, new edition)! 🎉
PDF available on request. Just drop me a message!
#Linguistics #ConstructionGrammar

Rhetorical schemes and Construction Grammar Abstract Formal rhetorical figures (schemes) have been largely neglected by Construction Grammar (CxG). The losses of this omission are substantial. Like metaphors, schemes leverage general-purpose ne...

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour... #constructiongrammar #linguistics #Rhetoric #rhetorical

Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations Cambridge Core - Grammar and Syntax - Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations

New Cambridge Element in Construction Grammar: Syntactic Variation from Individuals to Populations, by Jonathan Dunn, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at
cup.org/3L9VdMZ
#cambridgeelements #constructiongrammar

I love arriving at work and having a new book waiting for me. Just in time for the holiday break!
#ConstructionGrammar

Moving Past Slot-Fillers: Balancing English Argument Structure with Fluid Construction Grammar Constructional approaches view argument structure constructions as grammatical templates with open slots to be filled by verbs and their arguments, organized in an inheritance network. This paper argu...

I believe #ConstructionGrammar has outgrown some of its founding metaphors (slot-fillers; inheritance networks). In this #OpenAccess paper I propose two frame shifts in constructional thought:
doi.org/10.1515/zaa-...

YouTube analysis with GenKI: No more tedious searching for linguistic phenomena for the analysis of language in multimodal contexts!

#ConstructionGrammar #GenKI #linguistics #linguistik

youtube.com/shorts/6bJrZ...

Just finished reviewing @grambelli.bsky.social's book (available soon): a clear and engaging synthesis of the major strands of work on compositionality, analogy, and usage, while pushing #ConstructionGrammar toward a more explicit engagement with processing and computation. Highly recommended!

Schedule - CxGsNLP2.pdf

Hm. So #ConstructionGrammar is about #LLMs now? I think this is the wrong way to go.

drive.google.com/file/d/1MnyaPhopxCGZgH7i...

#CxG

Met veel trots (en ongetwijfeld nostalgie) ga ik morgen naar mijn alma mater om een gastles te geven over computational #ConstructionGrammar @uantwerpen.be

Working on some proofs on the train back home. It's a little article in which I share my thoughts about how we can "refactor" the architecture of #ConstructionGrammar to better fit the recent advances in usage-based approaches. I can't wait to see it published and hear your views

Very honoured to be the closing speaker at the Minerva workshop (Crossing boundaries, constructing bridges: grammar, cognition, interaction). I'll be talking about emergent level formation in #ConstructionGrammar Many thanks to @alexbergs.bsky.social and Bracha Nir for the wonderful organization!

A Modern Synthesis: The Fillmorean Construction and its Hidden Lineage | Constructions

Thrilled to announce the publication of my paper "A Modern Synthesis: The Fillmorean Construction and its Hidden Lineage" in Constructions! The article digs into the prehistory of #ConstructionGrammar and is based on the first chapter of my upcoming book
constructions.journals.hhu.de/article/view...

Analysis of [dass] er ihm den Teich leer fischt ‘that he fishes the pond empty for him’, an example in which the benefactive and the resultative construction interact

New version of my paper on phrasal constructions in TAG.

https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/009130

#Grammatik #Linguistik #Argumentstruktur #CxG #Konstruktionsgrammatik #ConstructionGrammar #HPSG #Lexikalismus

Original post on lingo.lol

At this years #LFG conference, I will talk about #TAG and what it shows us for the old phrasal vs. lexical discussion:

https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/009130

I think valence information has to be encoded lexically and lexical rules or empty heads or transformations should be used to derive […]

Our paper combines #HistoricalSociolinguistics with #ConstructionGrammar, analysing the role of gender in the productivity of the cx. While men use a greater number of different verbs in the cx, women lead the host-class expansion, so they might have different representations of the cx over time.

It's conference season! #ICAME46 in Vilnius this week, then back to Erlangen for the #ConstructionGrammar Symposium @fau.de, and #CL2025 @cl2025.co.uk at Aston University, Birmingham later in the month ☺️ Looking forward to it!

#corpuslinguistics #englishlinguistics #digitalhumanities

Here's my meme for Engl 306A with @randyallenharris.bsky.social

#UWENGL306AS25
#constructiongrammar

Constructions in the Nordics – CxGN 4 // Berlin, 15–16 September 2025

You can now register for Constructions in the Nordics 4, Berlin, 15−16 September 2025: constructionsinthenordics.org. Registration is open until the end of July #CxGN4 #CxG #ConstructionGrammar

I’ve started reading William Croft’s “Morphosyntax” (2022). Only on ch. 2 now, but finally a #syntax book I’m enjoying! And actually based on varied cross-linguistic data, not completely English-centric.

#linguistics #cxg #ConstructionGrammar #linguistic_typology

This monograph on #SpeechActs was published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social in 2021.It has received several positive reviews and is now currently being translated into Chinese by #ZhejiangUP. If you work in #ESL #EFL or #ConstructionGrammar, this may be of interest.Happy #WorldBookDay ! ➡️ bit.ly/44echH1

LSA Registration Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute

#LSA #LSA2025 #Linguistics #ConstructionGrammar #Morphology #Production #Productivity #UsagebasedLinguistics #Lexicon #TheoreticalFrameworks

The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar Cambridge Core - Grammar and Syntax - The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar

Need some basics of Construction Grammar? 👇🏼 www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... #constructiongrammar #cognitivelinguistics @cambup-linguistics.bsky.social

#LSA #LSA2025 #Linguistics #AI #ConstructionGrammar #DeepLearning #ExperimentalMethods #Production #Productivity #Semantics #Syntax #Learning #TheoreticalFrameworks

Different Constructional Approaches in Practice (Chapter 10) - The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar The Cambridge Handbook of Construction Grammar - February 2025

If you’re interested in my guide to different constructional approaches in practice, check out my paper in the Cambridge Handbook of #ConstructionGrammar

www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

#LSA #LSA2025 #Linguistics #ConstructionGrammar #InformationStructure #Syntax #Pragmatics #Variation #CorpusLinguistics #TheoreticalFrameworks

The German #CognitiveLinguistics Association is now on Bluesky! If you're interested in #language and #cognition, #ConstructionGrammar and related topics, follow us here: