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Not all research in diachronic construction grammar is equally “usage-based”

What is it about?

On the cognitive adequacy of models of constructional change. Further elaborated in "The development of non-deontic BE BOUND TO in a radically usage-based diachronic construction grammar perspective". Preprint available from the HKU Scholars Hub: http://hub.hku.hk/bitstream/10722/236401/1/content.pdf

Why is it important?

It offers reflection on what a "usage-based" approach to language change entails.

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