A new theoretical approach to language has emerged in the past 10-15 years that allows linguistic observations about form-meaning pairings constructions — to be stated directly. Constructionist approaches aim to account for the full range of facts about language, without assuming that a particular subset of the data is part of a privileged 揷ore? Researchers argue that unusual constructions shed light on more general issues, and serve to illuminate what is required for a complete account of language. A new theoretical approach to language has emerged in the past 10-15 years that allows linguistic observations about form-meaning pairings constructions - to be stated directly. Constructionist approaches aim to account for the full range of facts about language, without saying that particular subset of the data is part of a privileged 揷 ore? Researchers argue that unusual constructions shed light on more general issues, and serve to illuminate what is required for a complete account of language.