argument

Unlike Radical Construction Grammar, however, Goldberg's approach (as described in Goldberg 1995 and 2005) assumes that the various parts of a construction (such as for example particular verbs or argument patterns) always have an autonomous meaning representation (albeit one that can be modulated by the meaning of other parts of the construction).

The very ubiquitous character of the argument pattern begins to wear as the book proceeds, however.

These documents were subjected to an argument pattern analysis (for a discussion of pattern analysis see Miles & Huberman, 1994).

The puzzle is that a subjectless content can ground a self-ascription which is IEM, but which is made using the first-person pronoun, which 'exhibits all the characteristics of a genuinely referring term'; '[i]t occupies an argument place that can take other values, it is intersubstitutable with other representationally mediated forms of reference to oneself, and it supports all of the ordinary argument patterns' (63).