The directed motion construction in Swedish

This paper introduces a Swedish construction, called THE DIRECTED MOTION CONSTRUCTION (DMC). The DMC is parallel to the English WAY construction, which has recently received considerable attention in a debate comparing constructions to lexical rules. The DMC is very productive, and must therefore be taken seriously by any grammatical theory. This paper gives a detailed description of the DMC, and formalizes it in two ways: as a construction and as a lexical rule. Although both formalizations are possible, the construction more straightforwardly captures the most interesting aspect of the DMC: the fact that the overall meaning cannot be tied to any one of its individual parts

Construction Grammar · Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Motion (physics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · linguistics and terminology studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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