Imo undertakes an empirical analysis of constructions with ten verbs capable of being used in matrix sentences to combine the approaches of Conversation Research, Conversational Analysis and Interactional Linguistics with the theory of language and grammar advanced by Construction Grammar. He enquires into the advantages which the theory-poor Conversational Research could derive from a framework theory and examines whether Construction Grammar is adequate to the task of providing this framework, i.e. is able to describe the units of spoken language.

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Wolfgang Imo, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.