This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy. It looks at gradience in English word classes, phr

This volume, which emerged from a workshop at the New Reflections on Grammaticalization 4 conference held at KU Leuven in July 2008, contains a collection of pa

This volume collects novel contributions to comparative generative linguistics that “rethink” existing approaches to an extensive range of phenomena, domain

With exercises based on real language data, this volume gives a comprehensive introduction to construction grammar, focusing on English.

Second language acquisition has to integrate the totality of the SLA process, which includes both the learning of the core syntax of a language and the learning