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Construction

The term given to the mental inventory of constructions in Adele Goldberg's theory of construction grammar (2). As Goldberg makes no distinction between simplex and complex symbolic assemblies (since either kind may count as a construction (1) in her theory, in contrast to cognitive grammar), the construction is her term for the lexicon-grammar continuum.

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