Construction after construction and its theoretical challenges
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Ray Jackendoff
Tufts University
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The English NPN construction, exemplified by construction after construction, is productive with five prepositions ââ¬â by, for, to, after, and upon ââ¬â with a variety of meanings, including succession, juxtaposition, and comparison; it also has numerous idiomatic cases. This mixture of regularity and idiosyncrasy lends itself to an account in the spirit of construction grammar, in which the..
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