Abstract

This paper first defines lexical templates in Chinese, followed by an examination of the front empty lexical templates with examples taken from Chinese neologisms within the framework of construction grammar. We hold a lexical template to be an intermediate productive construction with one variable position and a lexically specified one. The holistic meaning is not the sum of that of the constituent parts; neither does the head contribute much to the meaning.

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