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Expanding Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics

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A case-study in identifying constructions:<br />

“A Hole through Y” (AHTY) (Boas 2008)<br />

(3) You pushed a hole through the crazing.<br />

(4) The army blew a hole in the barrier<br />

around the embassy.<br />

(5) He suggests we knock a hole through<br />

the wall.<br />

• Relationship between form <strong>and</strong> meaning???<br />

[NP V NP PP] caused-motion semantics<br />

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