Illocutionary constructions in English: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization
A study of the syntactic realizations of the directive, commissive and expressive speech acts in English
Samenvatting
The inferential path based on the instantiation of the Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model determines the activation of speech act values that may become conventionalized within a linguistic community. This title determines the applicability of the analytical tools developed by the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM) for illocutionary description.

