Reading List for Autumn Term 2026
Reading List for Autumn Term 2026
http://cifcl.buaa.edu.cn/BRCCL.htm
Beihang Reading Club for Cognitive Linguistics (BRCCL) is a non-profitable interest group freely attended for reading and discussing classic and latest theories in Cognitive Linguistics. BRCCL is supervised by Professor Thomas Fuyin Li (thomasli@buaa.edu.cn) from Beihang University. Its members are doctoral students, visiting scholars and faculty members from universities in Beijing, including Beihang University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, etc. Currently, BRCCL members gather 15 times per semester. At each gathering, we have one key speaker to do a detailed presentation on latest articles or classic books, followed by a discussion.
BRCCL would be grateful for any recommendation or complementary copies of the latest titles in the broad area of Cognitive Linguistics. BRCCL will always try its best to promote the latest theories to the audience in China by any possible means including writing a paper in Chinese.
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The address to receive complementary copies is as follows:
Professor Li Fuyin
Room 702, Ruxin Building
School of Foreign Languages
Beihang University
No. 37, Xueyuan Rd, Haidian District, Beijing P.R. China
thomasli@buaa.edu.cnthomaslfy@gmail.com
Mobile:（86）13811098129; (86)10-82339799(O)
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Tentative Venue: Online (Tencent Meeting) & Offline (Seminar Room)
I. TOPIC: Near-synoymous modal constructions and constructional variation
369. Leclercq, Benoît & Cameron Morin. 2023. No equivalence: A new principle of no synonymy. Constructions 15(1). 1-16.
DOI: 10.24338/cons-535
Speaker: Yuping Song
Time: Oct. 22
370. Míguez, Vítor. 2022. On epistemic modality and discourse strategy: Evidence from Galician adverbs. Journal of Pragmatics 201. 32-42.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2022.09.003
Speaker: Yuping Song
Time: Oct. 22
371. Sazhumyan, Haykanush & Alice Blumenthal-Dramé. 2025. The effects of aspect on meaning interpretation in the online and offline processing of modal constructions. Cognitive Linguistics 36(3). 473-497.
DOI: 10.1515/cog-2025-0095
Speaker: Yuping Song
Time: Oct. 22
II. TOPIC: Patital Productivity and Statistical Preemption in Competition
372. Suttle, Laura, and Adele E. Goldberg. 2011. The Partial Productivity of Constructions as Induction. Linguistics 49(6): 1237–1269.
DOI: 10.1515/LING.2011.035
Speaker: Luolin SUN
Time: Nov. 5
373. Boyd, Jeremy K., and Adele E. Goldberg. 2011. Learning What Not to Say: The Role of Statistical Preemption and Categorization in A-Adjective Production. Language 87(1): 55–83.
DOI: 10.1353/lan.2011.0012
Speaker: Luolin SUN
Time: Nov. 5
374. Goldberg, Adele E. 2016. Partial Productivity of Linguistic Constructions: Dynamic Categorization and Statistical Preemption. Language and Cognition 8: 369–390.
DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2016.17
Speaker: Luolin SUN
Time: Nov. 5
III. TOPIC: Diachronic semantic change: corpus-based and usage-based perspectives
375. Yang, Yuhang & Fuyin Thomas Li. 2026. Diachronic competition and functional differentiation in object-involving complex directional complement structures: A multifactorial case study of qǐlái. Language and Cognition 18. e48. 1-29.
DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2026.10097
Speaker: Yinzhu Qiu
Time: Nov. 19
376. Baumann, Andreas, Klaus Hofmann, Anna Marakasova, Julia Neidhardt & Tanja Wissik. 2023. Semantic micro-dynamics as a reflex of occurrence frequency: A semantic networks approach. Cognitive Linguistics 34(3–4). 533-568.
DOI: 10.1515/cog-2022-0008
Speaker: Yinzhu Qiu
Time: Nov. 19
377. Amaral, Patricia, Hai Hu & Sandra Kubler. 2023. Tracing semantic change with distributional methods: The contexts of algo. Diachronica 40(2). 153-194.
DOI: 10.1075/dia.21012.ama
Speaker: Yinzhu Qiu
Time: Nov. 19
IV. TOPIC: Semantic coercion in the way-construction: productivity, semantic extension, and variation across time.
378. Fanego, Teresa. 2018. A construction of independent means: the history of the Way- construction revisited. English Language and Linguistics 23(3). 671-699.
DOI: DOI:10.1017/S1360674318000059
Speaker: Benia Aya
Time: Dec. 3
379. González Romero, Luisa. 2025. On the use of the way-construction with the verb make: A diachronic perspective. Complutense Journal of English Studies 33. e102798.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/cjes.102798
Speaker: Benia Aya
Time: Dec. 3
380. Brunner, Thomas & Hoffmann Thomas. 2020. The way-Construction in world Englishes. English World-Wide 41(1). 1-32.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/eww.00038.bru
Speaker: Benia Aya
Time: Dec. 3
V. TOPIC: Image-Schematic Structure and Statistical Preemption in the English Way-Construction
381. Goldberg, Adele. 2011. Corpus evidence of the viability of statistical preemption. Cognitive Linguistics 22(1). 131-153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cogl.2011.006
Speaker: Aya Benia
Time: Dec. 17
382. Perek, Florent. 2016. Recent change in the productivity and schematicity of the way construction: A distributional semantic analysis. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 14. 65-97.
Speaker: Aya Benia
Time: Dec. 17
383. Zhu, Ziqi. 2023. A Literature Review of the Image Schema Theory and Concepts of Construction. International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics 9(6). 1-5.
DOI: 10.18178/IJLLL.2023.9.6.467
Speaker: Aya Benia
Time: Dec. 17
VI. TOPIC: Constructional Grammar: comeptition, interaction and alternation
384. Pisciotta, Flavio. 2026. Beyond Competition: Dynamics of Constructional Interaction Between HALFNESS Evaluative Constructions in Italian. Folia Linguistica 60 (2). 935–971.
DOI: 10.1515/flin-2025-0116
Speaker: Luolin SUN
Time: Dec. 31
385. Liu, Meili, and Yi Li. 2026. Detecting Patterns of Change in the Development of the Mandarin Dative Alternation: From Attraction to Differentiation and the Reversal. Cognitive Linguistics 37 (2). 201–240.
DOI: 10.1515/cog-2024-0126
Speaker: Luolin SUN
Time: Dec. 31
386.Blanco, Carmen Mellado, and Fabio Mollica. 2026. Constructional Contaminations in Phraseology: A Construction Grammar Perspective. Yearbook of Phraseology 17. 1–36.
DOI: 10.1515/phras-2026-3005
Speaker: Luolin SUN
Time: Dec. 31