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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="review-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Voprosy Jazykoznanija</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Voprosy Jazykoznanija</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вопросы языкознания</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">0373-658X</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">3034-5243</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">The Russian Academy of Sciences</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">650559</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31857/0373-658X.2024.5.135-153</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Surveys</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Обзоры</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Review Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">William Croft’s approach to constructions in comparison with the system of constructions in the Russian Constructicon</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Подход Уильяма Крофта к описанию конструкций в сравнении с системой представления конструкций в Русском конструктиконе</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Zhukova</surname><given-names>Valentina A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Жукова</surname><given-names>Валентина Александровна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="NO">Norway</country></address><email>valentina.a.zhukova@uit.no</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Letuchiy</surname><given-names>Alexander B.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Летучий</surname><given-names>Александр Борисович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><email>alexander.letuchiy@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">UiT The Arctic University of Norway</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Тромсё — Арктический университет Норвегии</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">HSE University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Национальный исследовательский университет «Высшая школа экономики»</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff3"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Институт русского языка им. В. В. Виноградова РАН</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2024-11-01" publication-format="electronic"><day>01</day><month>11</month><year>2024</year></pub-date><issue>5</issue><fpage>135</fpage><lpage>153</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-01-31"><day>31</day><month>01</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2024, Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2024, Российская академия наук</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2024</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Russian Academy of Sciences</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Российская академия наук</copyright-holder></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.eco-vector.com/0373-658X/article/view/650559">https://journals.eco-vector.com/0373-658X/article/view/650559</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>In this article, we discuss the approach to description of constructions adopted in William Croft’s monograph “Morphosyntax. Constructions of the World’s languages” (2022) and compare it to the approach to description and classification that is used in the Russian Constructicon. We conclude that Croft’s system and the Russian Constructicon show several substantial differences. First, Croft’s approach is based on the notion of Comparative Concepts and on an a priori classification of grammatical domains. By contrast, in the Russian Constructicon, a bottom-up approach is taken: it presupposes collecting the most representative inventory of constructions and, then, creating a system for classifying them. Second, the Russian Constructicon represents properties of constructions as a system of tags, where a construction can bear multiple tags, while Croft does not discuss cases of multiple tagging or grammatical class intersection. Finally, Croft’s system focuses on the core of grammar and includes mainly those values that are grammaticalized, while in the Russian Constructicon, attention is given not only to grammatical constructions, but also to constructions that can be termed ‘quasi-grammatical’ or ‘lexicalized’ — they have narrow semantics and combinational properties (here belong, for instance, iterative / frequentative constructions, such as <italic>to i delo </italic>‘frequently’, and constructions with the terminative / resultative meaning, such as <italic>svo</italic><italic>ё otguljal </italic>‘[he] is done with having fun’).</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>В статье мы обсуждаем подход к описанию конструкций, принятый в монографии Уильяма Крофта “Morphosyntax. Constructions of the World’s languages” (2022) и сопоставляем его с подходом к описанию и классификации конструкций, применяемым в “Русском конструктиконе”. Cравнение позволяет нам прийти к выводу, что между двумя методами описания есть существенные различия. Во-первых, подход Крофта опирается на «сравнительные категории» как основу типологических исследований и априорную классификацию значений и конструкций. Напротив, в «Русском конструктиконе» описание ведется «снизу вверх»: сначала составляется как можно более представительный инвентарь конструкций, а уже потом создается система для их классификации. Во-вторых, в «Русском конструктиконе» свойства конструкций представлены в виде системы помет, которых у каждой конструкции может быть несколько, тогда как в описании Крофта не обсуждается возможность принадлежности конструкции сразу к нескольким классам. Наконец, система Крофта ориентирована в первую очередь на ядерные зоны грамматики и включает в основном значения, грамматикализованные в тех или иных языках, тогда как в «Русском конструктиконе» внимание уделяется не только грамматическим, но и «квазиграмматическим» и «лексикализованным» конструкциям — данные конструкции обладают узкой семантикой и сочетаемостью (к ним, в частности, относится класс конструкций повторяемости, таких как <italic>то и дело</italic>, или конструкция со словом <italic>своё </italic>и глаголом с приставкой<italic> от-</italic>,<italic> </italic>например, <italic>своё отгулял</italic>, обозначающая окончание некоторого занятия и невозможность его продолжения).</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>survey</kwd><kwd>Construction Grammar</kwd><kwd>constructions</kwd><kwd>Russian Constructicon</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>обзор</kwd><kwd>грамматика конструкций</kwd><kwd>конструкции</kwd><kwd>русский конструктикон</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Aoun et al. 2010 — Aoun J. 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