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"This book provides a state of the art collection of constructional research on argument structure constructions in German. The volume is unique in that it offers an easily accessible, yet comprehensive and sophisticated variety of papers. Moreover, various of the papers make explicit connections between grammatical constructions and the concept of valency which has figured quite prominently in Germanic linguistics over the past half century"--
Approaching German syntax from a constructionist perspective / Hans C. Boas and Alexander Ziem -- The argument structure of psych-verbs: a quantitative corpus study on cognitive entrenchment / Stefan Engelberg -- Case alternation in argument structure constructions with prepositional verbs: A case study in corpus-based constructional analysis / Klaas Willems, Ludovic De Cuypere and Jonah Rys -- Valence patterns, constructions, and interaction: constructs with the German verb erinnern (remember / remind) / Wolfgang Imo -- Comparing Comparative correlatives: the German vs. English construction network / Thomas Hoffmann -- Argument omissions in multiple German corpora / Josef Ruppenhofer -- The Case for caseless prepositional constructions with voller in German / Amir Zeldes -- Construction, compositionality, and systematics of German particle verbs with an (on) / Marc Felfe -- Type and token frequency effects on developing constructional productivity: The case of the German sein (be) present participle construction / Karin Madlener -- Frames, verbs, and constructions: German constructions with verbs of stealing / Ryan Dux -- Argument structure constructions among German prepositional objects / Jouni Rostila