This chapter reviews ways of analyzing interactional and grammatical regularities of spoken, dialogically organized language in a constructional framework. The basic tenet is that grammatical constructions, when used in talk-in-interaction, are housed in interactional sequences, and it is the constructions’ positions in certain sequential locations that motivates their use and shapes their form. Therefore, aspects of sequence and discourse organization are potentially distinctive features of constructions, and reflections of the interactional contingencies that generate them. Four types of construction are examined: receipt questions, second assessments, a construction of meaning negotiation, and pseudo-clefts. All these patterns can be said to be responsive in one way or another, thus lending themselves well to a dialogically sensitive analysis. The analytic examples highlight the necessity of abstracted interactional information for a fuller understanding of the workings of grammatical constructions in talk-in-interaction and for how an interactional perspective can enrich constructional approaches to analyzing linguistic structure.

This chapter shows that the pointed free construction from Chapter 4 is a nonsymmetric multifunctor. Furthermore, it provides equivalences of homotopy theories between categories of nonsymmetric algebras in pointed multicategories and permutative categories. This is the basis for applications to enriched diagrams in Chapter 12.

This chapter studies results whereby a set functor is lifted to other categories, paying attention to whether the initial algebra and terminal coalgebra structures also lift. For example, given a set functor F having a terminal coalgebra and a lifting on either complete partial orders and complete metric spaces, the terminal coalgebra can be equipped with a canonical order or metric, respectively, so that this yields the terminal coalgebra for the lifting. Initial algebras, however, need not lift from Set to the other categories. We are also interested in specific liftings of F to pseudometric spaces, such as the Kantorovich and Wasserstein liftings. We study extensions to Kleisli categories and liftings to Eilenberg–Moore categories. We present results on coalgebraic trace semantics, and discuss examples such as the classical trace semantics of (probabilistic) labelled transition systems and languages accepted by nominal automata. We also study generalized determinization of coalgebras of functors arising from liftings to Eilenberg–Moore categories, leading to the coalgebraic language semantics. We see many instances of this semantics: the language semantics of non-deterministic weighted, probabilistic, and nominal automata; and also context-free languages.

This chapter provides an overview of corpus-based advances in Construction Grammar. After a brief introduction on kinds of data in linguistics in general and the notion of corpora in particular, I discuss a variety of corpus-based studies categorized into (i) largely qualitative studies, (ii) studies based on frequencies and probabilities, (iii) studies focusing on association strengths, and (iv) statistical as well as machine-learning studies. In each section, representative studies covering a variety of languages and questions are covered with an eye to surveying methodological as well as theoretical advantages. I conclude with an assessment of the state of the art by comparing how recent developments fare relative to Dąbrowska’s discussion of Cognitive Linguistics’s seven deadly sins.

Paul’s letters reflect levels of stories and are embedded in God’s grand narrative of creation and new creation

The journey through the wilderness ends with the people of Israel in the land of promise, but it is fraught with snares and temptations in the turbulent books of Joshua and Judges.

The Taxonomy Regulation establishes common and science-based definitions to determine whether an economic activity is environmentally sustainable. It aims to make sustainable finance more accessible to investors, while also protecting them from false or misleading claims about a financial product’s sustainability. In doing so it shifts a large part of the burden to prevent greenwashing onto the legislator. This chapter therefore critically analyses the Taxonomy’s ability to protect investors from greenwashing and identifies a number of pitfalls. The market for sustainable financial products is rapidly growing, yet the Taxonomy so far only covers environmental sustainability in selected sectors. Gathering and disclosing the necessary environmental data can be challenging and costly and may discourage companies and financial market participants to offer Taxonomy-aligned products, possibly turning it into a niche product. The Taxonomy’s binary approach makes it difficult for investors to assess the sustainability of complex financial products and limits incentives for non-aligned companies to improve their performance. This chapter therefore argues for an extension of the Taxonomy that distinguishes between positive, intermediary and harmful activities and provides definitions for social and governance aspects of sustainability