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This chapter illustrates key features and development in Cognitive Grammar. It starts by focusing on the so-called grammar-lexicon continuum. Then it discusses key cognitive abilities and cognitive models. Among the former are association, categorization, automatization, construal, the reference-point ability and fictivity. The latter include...

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In this study, we revisit the history of the English dative and benefactive alternations in the light of De Smet et al.'s (2018) model of language change. Countering traditional competition models, this model admits that the degree of functional overlap between two distinct linguistic units may increase over time, a process the authors label...

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