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Description: Pre-theoretically the term construction is widely used to refer to a language-specific phrasal or clausal pattern (e.g., the ‘passive’ construction, the ‘copula’ construction, the ‘participial’ construction, etc.). But in recent years the term construction has come to be used theoretically in Construction Grammar (e.g., Croft 2001) as a way to refer to conventionalized “pairings of [linguistic] form with semantic or discourse function, including morphemes or words, idioms, partially lexically filled and fully general phrasal patterns” (Goldberg 2006: 5).