Table of Contents
List of contributors vii
I Introduction
Exploring L2 constructionist approaches Gaëtanelle Gilquin Sabine De Knop 3
II Constructionist approaches to L2 learning and teaching
Foreign language learning is construction learning - what else? Moving towards Pedagogical Construction Grammar Thomas Herbst 21
A construction-based analysis of German ditransitive phraseologisms for language pedagogy Sabine De Knop Fabio Mollica 53
Effects of construction-centered instruction on Korean students' learning of English transitive resultative constructions Minchang Sung Hyun-Kwon Yang 89
Input-dependent L2 acquisition: Causative constructions in English as a foreign and second language Gaëtanelle Gilquin 115
III Crosslinguistic applications of constructionist approaches
Cognitive Pedagogical Grammar and meaning construction in 12 Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez María del Pilar Agustín Llach 151
Learning the placement caused motion construction in L2 Spanish Alberto Hijazo-Gascón Teresa Cadierno Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano 185
The role of syntax and semantics in constructional priming: Experimental evidence from Italian university learners of English through a sentence-elicitation task Annalisa Baicchi 211
Do we also need to unlearn constructions? The case of constructional negative transfer from Spanish to Italian and its pedagogical implications Paolo Della Putta 237
IV Constructing a constructicon for 12 learners
Towards an n-grammar of English Bert Cappelle Natalia Grabar 271
Frames and constructions in an online learner's dictionary of German Hans C. Boas Ryan Dux Alexander Ziem 303
Constructicography meets (second) language education: On constructions in teaching aids and the usefulness of a Swedish constructicon Lisa Loenheim Benjamin Lyngfelt Joel Olofsson Julia Prentice Sofia Tingsell 327
Index 357
