Constructionist views on Construction Grammar

Abstract

Here, we present a quantitative overview of the results from the Likert-scale questions, ordered by degree of agreement (as measured by standard deviation). We illustrate the emerging themes by sample comments from the questionnaire and by some of the open-ended questions.The questions with the highest degree of agreement are presented in Table 1: Table 1. Questions on which there is mostly agreement * 1 2 3 4 5 Av. St.D 5. Languages consist of networks of constructions. 70 22 5 2 1 1.45 0.77 4. Constructions are cognitively real. 46 32 18 3 1 1.82 0.87 10. How important a role does frequency play in your own constructional research? 53 37 2 5 2 1.65 0.9 6. The meanings of constructions should be represented in terms of Frame Semantics.