The German so-was-von construction

1. Construction Grammar as a theory of the co-existence of the generalized and the item-specific When, in the first quarter of the 21st century, one is looking for a theory that is likely to increase our understanding of the nature of language, Construction Grammar – in the sense of the research sailing under the names of Cognitive Grammar, usage-based approach and the various versions of explicitly constructionist approaches that are united by a number of key positions (Beckner et al. 2009;...