Constructing Families of Constructions

This chapter approaches the topic of constructional families by zooming in on five English motion constructions. Contrary to the traditional focus of Construction Grammar on verbal form-meaning pairings, the chapter discusses their multimodal dimension. A study in the NewsScape Library of Television News Broadcasts (Steen and Turner 2013) reveals that all five motion constructions studied therein show high co-occurrence rates with manner and path gestures. It is argued that according to the basi