Our special issue celebrates "35 Years of #Constructions", but what is a construction actually? Martin Haspelmath discusses this question in his contribution "On what a construction is" https://constructions.journals.hhu.de/article/view/539 #ConstructionGrammar

New paper in our special issue on 35 years of #Constructions by Carmen Mellado Blanco & Pedro Ivorra Ordines: "Casi palmo de la risa. A corpus-based study of a Spanish constructional idiom with the causal preposition de" #ConstructionGrammar https://constructions.journals.hhu.de/article/view/537

New paper in our special issue "35 Years of #Constructions": #Allostructions re-revisited by Eva Zehentner #ConstructionGrammar https://constructions.journals.hhu.de/article/view/569

Out now: The "Cambridge Elements" volume by Tobias Ungerer and myself on "Constructionist Approches" #ConstructionGrammar - fully #OpenAccess thanks to @HHU's open access fund & generous additional support from Eichstätt (thanks to series editor Thomas Hoffmann) https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/constructionist-approaches/4F37E9A2B97EB663F532B4068702055C

In the context of our DFG-funded project on child bilingual code mixing, we are advertising a 65% #PhD position at LMU #Munich #jobs #linguistics #CorpusLinguistics #DataScience #LanguageAcquisition #Multilingualism #ConstructionGrammar #München @linguistics https://www.b-ite.com/recruitingmanager/job-postings/share/3tXLeR7M6ihctWsn5Pzfx2MNuaOngaB5BkItq5DlUZLI6IL8NkpT6h7vGSNGgdz7

One of the highlights of academic life is the doctoral defences of those who wrote their dissertations together with you. Today is one of those days: Heidi Niva is defending her dissertation on how the Finnish Progressive Construction is used to express the future.
Dissertation here: https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/350471
#constructiongrammar #grammar #finnish

Usage-based language learning in a nutshell #ConstructionGrammar