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Expanding Construction Grammar and Frame Semantics

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Proposal<br />

• Conventionalized meanings of Class II<br />

verbs are encoded in terms of miniconstructions<br />

that inherit their meaning<br />

<strong>and</strong> form from the higher-level schematic<br />

AHTY Cx.<br />

• A mini-construction is a conventionalized<br />

form-meaning pairing representing an<br />

individual sense of a verb (see Boas 2003 on<br />

resultative constructions)<br />

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