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    <description>CogniTextes. Revue de l’Association française de linguistique cognitive. Revue électronique. La revue s’est donnée pour mission de forger des liens durables entre les chercheurs travaillant, de près ou de loin, dans le domaine de la linguistique cognitive et prêts à participer à son développement en France et au-delà. CogniTextes publie des contributions inédites sous forme d’articles (longs et courts), de critiques d’ouvrages et de débats. CogniTextes is the journal of the French Cognitive Linguistics Association (AFLiCo). Its main purpose is as a platform for academic exchange and its mission is to forge durable connections between researchers, near and far, working in the domains of cognitive linguistics, who wish to develop their domain in France or abroad. Via its peer review committee, CogniTextes offers previously unpublished articles (long and short), critical reviews and debates.</description>        
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    <title>The impact of elicitation method on the expression of motion in adult native speakers and L2 learners</title>
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      <p class="resume">Many studies have examined Talmy’s hypotheses regarding satellite- and verb-framed languages (Path location, frequency of Manner and Path expression). They have tested these hypotheses across multiple languages and using a variety of different methodologies. However, few studies to our knowledge have compared data based on different methodologies with the specific aim to understand the potential impact of the elicitation materials and procedures on the findings reported. In this study, we will therefore compare data from native adult English and French speakers as well as English learners of French who have produced both narratives and individually elicited events based on short, animated video-clips. We ask if we are likely to find the patterns of motion expression as predicted by Talmy’s framework, in native speakers and learners and regardless of the type of elicitation method /discourse context. Results show that although expected typological tendencies are visible across native...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Henriette Hendriks</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Annie-Claude Demagny</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2025-11-30</dc:date>
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    <title>Seeing and Speaking: the modulation of attention on locative events</title>
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      <p class="resume">Locative events, e.g., the glass on the table, are verbalised differently across languages. For example, French, English, and Dutch differ with regards to what is encoded in the locative verb: Dutch specifies the disposition of the Figure via a Cardinal Posture Verb (i.e., the glass <em>stands</em> on the table), French leaves it unexpressed, and English mostly behaves like French but occasionally uses CPVs. This paper investigates the impact of these linguistic differences on the (very) perception of locative events in two different verbal contexts (one with, and one without interaction) via the analysis of the eye-movements of L1 speakers of French, English, and Dutch. We demonstrate how the conversational need for the expression of orientation influences the visual exploration of locative events within and across languages. First, our findings reveal that although linguistic preferences do not guide the speaker to pay attention to specific aspects of the event, the speakers may look beyon...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Mégane Lesuisse</dc:creator>
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    <title>Grammatical aspect, tense and gestures: a comparison between Russian and French (L1 and L2)</title>
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      <p class="resume">A multimodal approach to how speakers express past events can shed light on the imagistic nature of their construal of event structure. Are the differences in grammatical options evident in the quality of the co-verbal gestures speakers use? To address this question, the present study focuses on French in comparison to Russian which exhibits a structurally different system. In study 1, prompts from Becker et al. (2011) were used with ten pairs of French, and ten pairs of Russian university students speaking their native language. Verbs referring to past events were coded for tense and aspect, and gestures used in the same grammatical clauses were coded for their movement quality. In French, significantly more bounded gestures correlated with the <em>passé composé</em>, more unbounded with the <em>imparfait</em>, which matched our hypothesis. In Russian, bounded gestures were used significantly more frequently than unbounded ones, regardless of the aspect. In study 2, we coded data from ten pairs of R...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Aliyah Morgenstern</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Dominique Boutet</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Alan Cienki</dc:creator>
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    <title>Un hambre que da calambre. Creativity and extravagance in the context of a family of consecutive constructional idioms</title>
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      <p class="resume">The fact that language is continually changing and that there is a constant flow of linguistic innovations is blatantly obvious. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the notion of E(nlarging/extending)-creativity in the context of Construction Grammar (Bergs 2019; Hoffmann 2020, 2022; Ivorra Ordines &#38; López Meirama 2024; Mellado Blanco 2023; among others), in the sense of creating new communicative possibilities that are not already in the language. Against this background, I investigate the extravagant nature of a family of consecutive constructional idioms using data from the esTenTen18 corpus (Sketch Engine), with instances such as <em>una sed que me bebería el entero lago </em>‘a thirst that could drink the entire lake’. After a constructionist description of the patterns under discussion, the aim of this paper is twofold. First, to elucidate the intersection of creativity and extravagance. Second, to explore the extravagant nature of such patterns through different indi...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Pedro Ivorra Ordines</dc:creator>
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    <title>Prototypical low-level constructions - experimental evidence for the possessive preposition in Hebrew</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">This paper aims to test the hypothesis that prototypical discourse profiles of productive constructions are stored independently by speakers. As a case study, the paper presents an empirical investigation of definite prepositional possessive constructions in Hebrew (e.g. </span><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">ax </span></em><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">ʃ</span></em><em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">eli</span></em><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> ‘my brother’). The research explores the source of definiteness of these constructions, i.e. whether definiteness is a property of kinship terms in and of themselves (Danon 2001) or of the possessed structures as a whole (Neuman 2015). A corpus study of spoken Hebrew confirms that the prototypical discourse profile of the possessive construction involves definite reference and reference to kinship terms. An acceptability judgment task experiment supports the hypothesis that these discourse profiles are independently represented. A cluster analysis suggests theses representations are specified at an intermediate level of abstraction. This study thus contributes to the study of definiteness in Hebrew and joins...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Ittamar Erb</dc:creator>
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    <title>Let’s drop the object : An experimental study of the implicit object construction in American English</title>
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      <p class="resume">The topic of transitive structures with implicit (phonologically null) objects has received much attention in Construction Grammar (CxG). Among natural languages, English is characterized by allowing mainly non-referential implicit objects (‘They build _ for a living’), whereas referential implicit objects are highly constrained and/or require conversational implicatures (Fillmore 1986 ; Cummins &#38; Roberge 2004 ; Goldberg 2001). Using the CxG framework, this article investigates discourse-based acceptability of the <em>Implicit Object Construction</em> (IOC) in two context types: Generic (no antecedent for an implicit object) and Definite/Indefinite (+antecedent for an implicit object). One of the hypotheses explored is that English allows implicature-based referential construals for implicit objects (Cummins &#38; Roberge 2004). Two online experiments were conducted. Experiment 1 included 31 native speakers of American English (AE) who provided acceptability rankings for the IOC in three experim...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Elena Gavruseva</dc:creator>
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    <title>Modal scenarios, topoi and incongruity in expressive constructions</title>
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      <p class="resume">This paper is a contribution to the reflection on the semantic and pragmatic interface in Construction Grammar. Using the example of a particular construction, the Incongruous Sanction Construction, it shows the role played by the notions of modal scenario and topos in qualifying the incongruity present in this construction. This qualification (in this case, axiological) is decisive insofar as it constitutes the necessary condition for the conventionalisation of the expressive value. Constructions that do not meet this condition have expressive values that must be determined from the context.</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Dominique Legallois</dc:creator>
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    <title>Can context undo constructional meaning? A Construction Grammar study of French en situation de + NOUN</title>
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      <p class="resume">This article investigates the extent to which context can impact the meaning of a construction. It focuses on the French expression <em>en situation de</em> (‘in situation of’) + NOUN, whose meaning is contested among language users when specifically applied to human referents (e.g., <em>en situation de handicap</em> ‘disabled’, <em>en</em> <em>situation de pauvreté</em> ‘poor’). Analyzed as a constructional idiom, its meaning is mapped out on the basis of corpus data. Although a clash is consistently observed between the “circumstantial characterization” meaning arising from the constituent parts of the construction and the “inherent characterization” interpretation it typically receives in context, I argue that contextual pressure has not resulted in the obliteration of constructional meaning. <em>En situation de</em> + NOUN is shown to retain semantic and pragmatic properties that distinguish it from referentially equivalent expressions and ensure its longevity. In addition to making a contribution to research on euphemism ...</p>]]></description> 
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    <title>Co(n)texts in Grammatical Paradigms</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">This paper discusses the role of different kinds of contexts for grammatical paradigms. These paradigms are understood as functional sets that consist of a structured inventory of oppositions and relations between their members (e.g. Diewald 2009, Diewald &#38; Politt 2021, Politt 2022). As a usage-based concept, describing grammatical paradigms necessarily relies on real usage contexts. Three types of co(n)text(s) are deemed relevant to paradigms: (i) the intraparadigmatic context, (ii) co-text features (Catford 1965) co-occurring with paradigm members in discourse, and (iii) the communicative context. The relevance of each kind of co(n)text is illustrated by different studies, each showing how a co(n)text-based analysis and description of grammatical structures can enhance the understanding of functional distinctions from a usage-based point of view. Together, the three co(n)text types shape the internal structure of the paradigm, the functional niches of their members, and the choice...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Katja Politt</dc:creator>
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    <title>Context Factors in Clause-Type Disambiguation: Old High German ibu- Clauses in the Syntagma </title>
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      <p class="resume">In the history of studies in German syntax, clauses have typically been described based on their most salient internal features on various structural levels. Constructional approaches, however, prioritise a holistic and often usage-based view of grammatical structures, in which the distribution of a construction is also information necessary for its correct usage and interpretation. The present study of Old High German syntax adopts this viewpoint and considers distributional regularities of conditional and complement clauses introduced with <em>ibu</em>, comparable to present-day English <em>if</em> and French <em>si</em>. Such clause types have many internal formal features in common, so that they appear to be formally ambiguous. Curiously, they rarely pose interpretation problems. Here, it is argued that part of the knowledge language users have of clausal constructions details their use in a syntagmatic context. This is demonstrated with corpus data showing that clause order, matrix verb semantics and the...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Michael Redmond</dc:creator>
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