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The paper addresses a pair of construction variants: the N1 V N2 -infinitive construction and its version without , in the cases when both are possible with the same main verb ( / ). It aims to point to the importance of the use of massive e-corpora in gaining better insight into the given construction pair. It also aims to test the hypothesis that the obtained quantitative data from such corpora can at least partially be accounted for by the interplay of: (1) the differences in the semantics of the two construction variants (based on combining relevant cognitive-linguistic insights), (2) the differences in the lexical semantics of the main verbs, and (3) extra-linguistic factors dealt with by models of cross-cultural communication styles. The paper thus argues for a tighter integration of cognitive-linguistic insights and a social-interactional perspective on language phenomena.

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Massive corpora and models of cross‑cultural communication styles in Cognitive Linguitics
Review of Cognitive Linguistics. Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association 17, 29 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1075/rcl.00025.pav
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Keyword(s): construction variants; massive e-corpora; models of cross-cultural communication styles; principle of no-synonymy; recontextualizing approach to language

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