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Instantiation

Specific instances of language use, in which a usage pattern instantiates its corresponding schema.

Instantiations, therefore, are specific instances of use, arising from a schematic representation. The view that mental schemas licence or sanction particular instances of use is due to the usage-based thesis widely adopted in cognitive linguistics.

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