| Summary: | Drawing on data extracted from the British National Corpus and the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual in conjunction with elicitation data from native speakers, this chapter constitutes a first step towards a constructionist, usage-based analysis of secondary predication with verba dicendi et declarandi (e.g., say, declare, decir 'say', declarar 'declare') in English and Spanish. Within this environment (the "declarative subjective-transitive" construction), at least three lower-level (i.e., item-specific) configurations can be posited in th
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