Tromsø Constructicon Lab (ConLab)

• Corpus-based research on constructions
• Relationships of constructions
• Constructicon-building: making code that is portable to other languages
• Constructicon-building: semantic and syntactic annotation of constructions
• Recording instructional videos
• Construction-based approach to language pedagogy
• Comparing constructions across languages

• Open-source code portable to other languages (available on GitHub)
• Multi-level semantic classification of Russian constructions (Janda et al. 2023)
• Identifying meaningful groupings of constructions in terms of families, clusters, and networks (Janda, Zhukova, Endresen forthcoming; Janda et al. 2020; Endresen & Janda 2022; Janda & Kopotev & Nesset 2022)
• Describing multi-level relationships among individual constructions (Janda et al. 2020; Endresen & Janda 2022; Janda & Nesset 2022; Janda & Zhukova fortcoming)
• Proposing strategies to build inventories of entries for constructicon resources (Endresen et al. forthcoming)
• Applications of constructionist approach to teaching L2 Russian (Endresen et al. 2022)

• Тhe Berkeley FrameNet Constructicon for English, from FrameNet: https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal/
• The Swedish Constructicon: https://spraakbanken.gu.se/konstruktikon
• The English Constructicon (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) https://mail.icame.info/index.php
• The German Constructicon: https://gsw.phil.hhu.de/constructicon/
• The Brazilian Portuguese Constructicon (FN-Br Constructicon): http://webtool.framenetbr.ufjf.br/
• The Japanese FrameNet Constructicon, access from the Japanese FrameNet: http://jfn.st.hc.keio.ac.jp
• The Russian Pragmaticon (database of Russian discourse formulae): https://pragmaticon.ruscorpora.ru/
• The English Constructicon (University of Birmingham, UK) https://englishconstructicon.bham.ac.uk

Key conferences on Construction Grammar

• International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG)
• Constructions in the Nordics (CxCG)
• Constructionist Approaches to Language Pedagogy (CALP)
• International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC)

Key journals on Construction Grammar

• Constructions and Frames https://benjamins.com/catalog/cf
• Constructions https://constructions.journals.hhu.de/about
• Cognitive Linguistics https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/cogl/html
• Review of Cognitive Linguistics https://www.benjamins.com/catalog/rcl
• “Constructional Approaches to Language” series of John Benjamins https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/series/1573594x

Other resources on Construction Grammar

• http://constructiongrammar.org 

The Tromsø Constructicon Lab brings together researchers who work on constructions and construction-based digital resources, i.e. constructiCons. 

We understand constructions according to Construction Grammar theory (Fillmore et al. 1988, Croft 2001, Goldberg 2006) as recurrent pairings of form and meaning learned by speakers in the process of language use. Constructions are the central units of language structure and description.

The constructions of each language form a structured system, termed a constructiCon, that accounts for the entirety of the language. The term “constructicon” designates both a system of constructions in a language and a thorough description of this system, usually in the form of a digital database.

A discipline that focuses on building constructicon resources is called constructicography and lies at the intersection of usage-based linguistics, computer science, and language technology.