Sentence examples for constructional constraints from inspiring English sources

Constructional constraints apply at specific speeds below approx. 8 min−1 as well as beyond 400 min−1 (Gülich 2010).

Constructional constraints belong therefore to the primary factors governing evolutionary trends of the ammonoid shell, indirectly triggered by adaptive trends.

Some other shell parameters also show a parallel evolution, but most likely due to covariation (constructional constraints).

This example provides evidence that parallel evolution can be driven simultaneously by different factors such as covariation (constructional constraints) and adaptation (natural selection).

Finally, we try to decipher the characters, which evolved identically because of covariation (constructional constraints) and/or because of adaptation (selective constraints).

Among the documented parallel morphological evolutionary trends, some can be explained as covarying traits, meaning that some morphological trends can result from constructional constraints [ 39, 162- 165].

The V-DE construction has the constructional constraint that, when the de-part is resultative and has an overt NP between -de and the predicate of the de-clause, the AP or VP of the de-part generally needs to be predicated of one of the overt NPs in the de-part.

The constructional constraint of the V-DE construction also guides the interpretation of 79b and it correctly gives rise to the default reading of 79b, namely the second reading of 77.

Recall that there is a constructional constraint of the V-DE construction that, if there is any overt NP between -de and the AP or VP in a resultative de-part, the AP or VP must generally be semantically and syntactically predicated of this overt NP.

As far as the V-DE construction with an overt NP between -de and the AP or VP of the de-part is concerned, its interpretation is guided by the constructional constraint of the V-DE construction and by the structure assigned to such a V-DE construction.

This systematic default interpretation, in turn, results from one constructional constraint of the V-DE construction mentioned above, namely that, when the de-part is resultative and has an overt NP between -de and the predicate of the de-clause, the AP or VP of the de-part generally needs to be predicated of one of the overt NPs in the de-part.