The view in construction grammar (2) that a construction (1), just like a word, exhibits polysemy. Consider the following examples of the ditransitive construction :

1. Max gave Bella a biscuit
2. Angela knitted Bella a jumper
3. John owes me a fiver While each of these examples has to do with transfer, they each differ in subtle but important ways. Example (1) implies successful transfer of a biscuit to Bella while example (2) only implies intended transfer (it's possible that Angela may never complete the jumper). In (3), we have transfer which depends on certain satisfaction conditions being met: for instance, it depends on John being able to, willing to and/or intending to repay the money. Thus examples such as these are held to provide evidence that the ditransitive construction exhibits polysemy.