31 Taylor, John R. 2004 Radden, Gunther Panther, Klaus-Uwe Studies in linguistic motivation Berlin; New York Mouton de Gruyter 49-74 Cognitive Linguistics "According to Cognitive Grammar, the grammar of a language can be characterized as a structured inventory of conventional linguistic units." - units are not encapsulated "chunks of information" rather "each unit stands at the hub of a network of relations to other units."Three types of relations: schema and its more fully specified instances; part and the whole in which it features; similarityThis paper focuses on constructions "defined as linguistic structures which ar analusable into component parts" - they are motivated through relations to other units in the language; these relations "cummulatively create a 'niche' for the construction within the language system" (| cf. Sinclair & Hunston - local grammars) - gives examples of the bang goes construction.