From lexico- to constructico-graphy in Modern Greek

Abstract This paper explores the intersection of Construction Grammar and lexicography, a notion referred to here as “constructicography”. The study considers constructicon projects for languages such as English, German, Swedish and Russian, and aims to contribute to the emerging body of constructionist research on Greek by illuminating the path towards a Greek constructicon. By way of illustration, constructicographic practices are applied to Greek data concerning three semi-schematic constructions ([ τι δεν VP ], [ ποιος ,‑ α ,‑ ο (N) δεν VP ], [ πόσος ,‑ η ,‑ ο (N) δεν VP ]) that belong to the family of interrogative-negative exclamatives. The study demonstrates what is involved in constructicographic work, from identifying constructions, and describing their special properties of form (syntactic, morphological, phonological) and meaning (semantic, pragmatic, discoursal), to linking constructions with frames and with each other in a structured network.