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Is our mental grammar just a set of constructions? Commentary on Evans 2014

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Wolfram Hinzen
Wolfram Hinzen*
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ICREA/Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
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Departament de Traducció i Ciències del Llenguatge, Roc Boronat, 138, 08018 Barcelona, Spain [wolfram.hinzen@upf.edu]
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Language , Volume 92 , Issue 1 , March 2016, pp. 203 - 207
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Copyright © 2016 Linguistic Society of America

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