Alina-Cristina Semen

Isabela-Ionelia Vilceanu

1.How is the construct-i-con described?

3.Identify the types of meaningless constructions

from the following texts:
a. John talked with an old colleague.
b.Would you cry if I die tomorrow?
c.What kind of constructions did you identified?
d.Eric plays football and Steven, too.
e.Mike talked about the earth quake, not his brother.
f.Laura reads.
g.Max left a T-shirt on the armchair and another one behind
it.
h.I will pay you a visit or at least I will call you tomorrow
morning.

4.Why are meaningless constructions considered

problematic for the construct-i-con?

Some researchers think that meaningless

construction should be taken into account as a
part of the construct-i-con, although the
construct-i-con is supposed to be a repository of
forms with a meaning.

5.Explain what Hilpert wants to say when

he talks about inheritance

Relation between more abstract constructions

and more concrete constructions in which the
more concrete ones exhibit formal and
functional features of the more abstract ones.

6.Identify the types of inheritance links from the

following examples:
It was then that she threatened to spill the beans about her
affair with the president.
You drive me bananas with your daily complaints about
the cold weather.
Mikes flight has been cancelled.
Joe gave Sally the ball.
oYou must be crazy to say such things to her.
oKevin must be at the university at 12 oclock!
Dana baked a pie.
Dana baked Ioana a pie.

7.What do you understand by syntactic

amalgams?

Illustrates a sentence in which two or more

different constructions are interlaced.

8.What Hilpert means when he talks about

complete inheritance and redundant
representations?

Complete inheritance this view assumes that

inherited information is stored only once, with the
most general construction that carries this
information, in order to be worked out.

Redundant representations multiple

memorizations of the same pieces of information
(across different levels of abstraction); these fade in
time, but are refreshed by new usage events.