Lexikon och konstruktikon – ett konstruktionsgrammatiskt perspektiv på lexikografi

Abstract

This paper addresses the question of where and how to cover linguistic patterns that do not quite belong either to the domain of lexicon or that of grammar. We present some examples of such constructions and introduce the notion of a Constructicon, as a complementary kind of resource to dictionaries and grammars, to account for them. We also examine the treatment of these example constructions in Swedish dictionaries, and discuss to what extent they can and should be treated there.