Cognitive Grammar Interpretation of the "X+Be+Being+Adj." Construction

Yanfang Qiu

doi:10.47297/wspiedWSP2516-250014.20250910

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Cognitive Grammar Interpretation of the "X+Be+Being+Adj." Construction

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Cognitive Grammar Interpretation of the "X+Be+Being+Adj." Construction
Cognitive Grammar Interpretation of the "X+Be+Being+Adj." Construction
College of Foreign Languages, Longyan University, Longyan, Fujian, 364012, China
2025年9卷第10期页码：61-63
纸质出版：2025-10-30
DOI：10.47297/wspiedWSP2516-250014.20250910
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Yanfang Qiu. (2025). Cognitive Grammar Interpretation of the "X+Be+Being+Adj." Construction. 国际教育与发展（英文版）, 9(10), 61-63.

Qiu Yanfang.Cognitive Grammar Interpretation of the "X+Be+Being+Adj." Construction[J].Journal of International Education and Development,2025,09(10):61-63.
Yanfang Qiu. (2025). Cognitive Grammar Interpretation of the "X+Be+Being+Adj." Construction. 国际教育与发展（英文版）, 9(10), 61-63. DOI： 10.47297/wspiedWSP2516-250014.20250910.

Qiu Yanfang.Cognitive Grammar Interpretation of the "X+Be+Being+Adj." Construction[J].Journal of International Education and Development,2025,09(10):61-63. DOI： 10.47297/wspiedWSP2516-250014.20250910.

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From the perspective of Cognitive Grammar and following the constructional approach

this paper analyzes the formal and semantic features of the "X+Be+Being+Adj." construction with the assistance of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). It also explores the formation mechanism of the construction's meaning by integrating Langacker's profile-base prominence model. The findings show that "X+Be+Being+Adj." is a typical construction

and semantic coercion is the core factor for realizing its constructional meaning. Semantic coercion follows the prominence principle and is implemented through the perceptual organization pattern of figure-ground.

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