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  1. So ist der Vorplatz des zukünftigen Pina Bausch Zentrums am Wochenende umgestaltet worden

    Das Pina Bausch Zentrum under constructions lud im Rahmen des Projekts „Urban Wilderness“ Bürgerinnen und Bürger ein, das…
    #Wuppertal #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #Bausch #constructions #Constructlab #Effizienz #Germany #Nordrhein-Westfalen #Ort #Pina #Vorplatz #Wochenende #Zentrum #zukünftigen
    europesays.com/de/1010583/

  2. New paper by Remi van Trijp in #Constructions: A Modern Synthesis -
    The Fillmorean Construction and its Hidden Lineage doi.org/10.24338/cons-631

  3. Two new papers out in #Constructions!
    - Flavio Pisciotta: Construction Grammar meets Graph Theory doi.org/10.24338/cons-737
    - Gauthier Delaby & Timothy Colleman: Multiple sources of constructional contamination in different language varieties doi.org/10.24338/cons-754

  4. The #Trump #Labor Dept is aiming to rewrite or repeal >60 “obsolete” #workplace #regulations, ranging from #MinimumWage requirements for home #healthcare #workers & people w/ #disabilities to standards governing exposure to harmful substances.

    The wide-ranging changes…would also affect working conditions at #constructions sites & #mines, & limit govt ability to penalize #employers if #workers are #injured or #killed while engaging in inherently risky activities…

    #law
    apnews.com/article/labor-depar

  5. Possibly you have already noticed - I have a real passion for such constructions. Love them, can't do anything about it! #passion #constructions #love

  6. Possibly you have already noticed - I have a real passion for such constructions. Love them, can't do anything about it!

  7. A journal like #Constructions has the big advantage that we can easily publish epic papers like this 70-page article by Karin Madlener-Charpentier on "Information packaging and constructional #complexity: Challenges in motion event encoding in #L2 #German and L2 #French" doi.org/10.24338/cons-706

  8. First #Constructions paper in 2025: "ConstructiCon-based description: A nominal modification case study" by Shahar Shirtz & Rebecca Paterson doi.org/10.24338/cons-649

  9. “He knew that the idea of Echo was a personal fantasy from his inner life, an idea that could survive in his mind but not withstand the scrutiny of others. But the appearance of the rabbit in the world outside him had strengthened the idea, giving it the potential to grow and evolve and become more elaborate and intricate. Such constructions grow secretly in many minds, acknowledged and understood only by their creators.  Their imaginary nature, however, does not mean that they are unable to affect the world at large.”

    https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/11/05/he-knew-that-the-idea-of-echo-was-a-personal-fantasy-from-his-inner-life-an-idea-that-could-survive-in-his-mind-but-not-withstand-the-scrutiny-of-others-but-the-appearance-of-the-rabbit-in-the-wor/

  10. New paper in #Constructions: "Constructional #LanguageProcessing and #LanguageLearning starting from unsegmented linguistic #input" by Veronica Juliana Schmalz, Lara Verheyen & Jens Nevens doi.org/10.24338/cons-684

  11. New paper out in #Constructions by Thomas Moerman, Paul van Eecke & Katrien Beuls: Evaluating Large-Scale #ConstructionGrammar|s on the Tasks of Semantic #Frame Extraction and Semantic Role Labeling constructions.journals.hhu.de/ (as always, the DOI doesn't work yet but it will in 24 hours or so)

  12. We are happy to welcome two new members to the editorial board of #Constructions: Elena Smirnova and Cameron Morin constructions.journals.hhu.de/

  13. New #Constructions paper out: "Individual differences in #productivity" by Anouk Van den Stock, Anne-Sophie Ghyselen, Peter Lauwers, Dirk Speelman, Timothy Colleman constructions.journals.hhu.de/ (nb: DOI doesn't work yet, but it will soon)

  14. [CONSTRUCTIONS] 📐Pôle pénitentiaire du Nord vaudois: trois avant-projets de #constructions viennent compléter le développement des infrastructures carcérales
    #Vaud #pénitentiaire
    🔗 t.co/xXZiH4dagN

  15. Happy to announce that #Constructions, hosted by the University and State Library Düsseldorf @HHU, has been accepted as a member of the Free Journal Network. See constructions.journals.hhu.de/ for information about aims&scope, submission, policies etc #ConstructionGrammar #openaccess

  16. Are you interested in publishing a special issue on a topic related to #ConstructionGrammar? Then #Constructions might be the ideal journal for you - we have now added a info page on special issues to our website: constructions.journals.hhu.de/

  17. We don't always publish book reviews at #Constructions, but when we do, it's about a very special book: @alexwillich has taken a critical look at Thomas Hoffmann's @LinguistKU #ConstructionGrammar textbook constructions.journals.hhu.de/

  18. Excellent news! Our open-access journal #Constructions is now included in the Directory of Open Access Journals @DOAJ 🎉 🥳 Thanks to ULB Düsseldorf @HHU for hosting the journal, and to our authors, reviewers, and editors!

  19. Last paper in #Constructions for this year: "Atypical Imperative constructions: The case of YOU DO THAT" by Vassiliki Geka constructions.journals.hhu.de/

  20. New paper published in #Constructions: "Differentiating #valence patterns - A quantitative analysis based on formal and semantic attributes" by Kazuho Kambara, Hajime Nozawa & Takeshi Takahashi constructions.journals.hhu.de/

  21. Whatever happened to the Scene Encoding Hypothesis?, ask @attribot & @questoph in their contribution to our special issue on 35 Years of #Constructions: constructions.journals.hhu.de/

  22. What's spectacle and sensationalism doing in #ConstructionGrammar? Find out in Frank Brisard's contribution to our special issue "35 Years of #Constructions", in which he revisits the infamous "What's X doing Y" construction: constructions.journals.hhu.de/

  23. Our special issue celebrates "35 Years of #Constructions", but what is a construction actually? Martin Haspelmath discusses this question in his contribution "On what a construction is" constructions.journals.hhu.de/ #ConstructionGrammar

  24. New paper in our special issue on 35 years of #Constructions by Carmen Mellado Blanco & Pedro Ivorra Ordines: "Casi palmo de la risa. A corpus-based study of a Spanish constructional idiom with the causal preposition de" #ConstructionGrammar constructions.journals.hhu.de/