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Perspectives on Complementation contains eleven articles that deal with different aspects of complementation in different languages such as English, Finnish, French, German and Spanish, which are presented in three parts: I Structure, II Variation and III Boundaries. Laura A. Michaelis's (Colorado Boulder) opening contribution "Constructions License Verb Frames" (7-33) contrasts projectionist and constructionist accounts of complementation. Michaelis outlines basic principles of the model of Sign-Based Construction Grammar, a model combining HPSG and aspects of Berkeley Construction Grammar. In this model, grammar is seen as consisting of a lexicon and a set of (inflectional and derivational) constructions. In my view, her statement that what all construction-based approaches have in common "is the idea that a verb's array of arguments [...] is determined by the argument-structure construction with which the verb combines" (18) is perhaps a little too general in that it does not do justice to Goldberg's (1995Goldberg's ( , 2006) ) distinction between the participant roles of the verb and the argument roles of the construction and the idea of construal: the arguments provided by the

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Author

Thomas Herbst

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2016

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)