Constructions at work or at rest?

Constructions at work or at rest?

We question whether Adele Goldberg fulfills her self-declared goal in ‘‘Constructions at Work’’, i.e. to develop a usage-based theory that ‘‘can produce an open-ended number of novel utterances based on a finite amount of input’’. We point out converging trends in computational linguistics that suggest formalizations of Construction Grammar. In particular, we go into recent developments in Data...

Constructions at work

Lactic Acid in Rest and Work at High Altitude1

The present paper sets forth blood lactic acid values obtained from four groups of subjects at high altitude: members of our party in Chile, residents of ‘Quilcha, Chile (altitude 5.34 km.), members of our party at Leadville, and residents at Leadville. The Chilean party was divided into two groups. The first group, consisting of six men, was engaged for approximately six weeks setting up a mob...

Sexual behavior at work: Fun or folly?

Sexual behavior at work (e.g., sexual jokes and propositions) has been largely portrayed as offensive and harmful. The current research represents the first studies to test whether this is typically the case. Study 1 surveyed manufacturing and social service workers (N = 238) about their psychological well-being, work withdrawal, and exposure to sexual behavior at work. Respondents indicated ho...

Reading networks at rest.

Resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC) approaches offer a novel tool to delineate distinct functional networks in the brain. In the present functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, we elucidated patterns of RSFC associated with 6 regions of interest selected primarily from a meta-analysis on word reading (Bolger DJ, Perfetti CA, Schneider W. 2005. Cross-cultural effect on the b...