Construction Grammar and spoken language: The case of pragmatic particles

The study tests the feasibility of using CxG as a framework that can provide adequate analyses and explanations of grammatical patterns found in spoken language, by studying a number of pragmatic particles as form-function constellations in Czech and Solv. The analysis thus also leads to systematizing the pragmatics and discourse toolboxes of CxG and such systematization, in turn, provides a deeper and more rigorous basis for the understanding of the pragmatic particles under investigation.