What is it about?

The article addresses how the facilitating and regulating factors interact in the extension of schematic constructions.

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Why is it important?

The article proposes the integrate model to explain why in the extension of schematic constructions some novel uses or instances appear more readily than others, suggesting that exemplars and the constructional prior knowledge play different roles in the process.

Perspectives

Hope this article can attract more scholars to pay attention to the issues such as the mechanism(s) behind the extension of schematic constructions and how it is different from the diachronic development of substantive constructions.

rui peng
National University of Singapore

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This page is a summary of: The integration of exemplars and prior knowledge in the extension of schematic constructions: evidence from Chinese emerge-hide construction, Language Sciences, July 2016, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2016.02.007.
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