Constructions and context: when a construction constructs the context
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The role of context in construction grammar has been up to now viewed from a restricted point of view. That is, context is used to help in analysing the meaning and the pragmatic aspects of constructions, in keeping with the following assumption: 1. Context (common ground) forms part of the construction’s semantics Namely, it has been observed that, in many cases, constructions have a noncompositional meaning. A sub class of semantic non compositional construction is characterized by the fact that its interpretation involves the incorporation of pieces of information derived by taking into account the context, broadly speaking, of the utterance effected through the construction. The introduction of these contextual pieces of information is achieved in most cases by means of lexemes carrying an instructional meaning: “look at this aspect of context to process the meaning of the construction”. This situation is best described by this excerpt from Paul Kay:
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