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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsWhy Construction Grammar Catches the Worm and Corpus Data can Drive you Crazy: Accounting for Idiomatic and Non-Idiomatic IdiomaticityThomas HerbstThis article outlines why the treatment of idiomatic elements in language in terms of constructions can be considered a real step forward in the understanding of the character of language. It is argued that construction grammar provides a theoretical basis for accommodating insights into the phraseological character of language that were gained in a number of fields such as corpus … …Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 3 · 11 Sep 2015 · 8,788 accessesView PDF Cite

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