TY - JOUR N2 - This paper adopts a constructional approach to grammatical structure (Goldberg 1995; 2006) and a corpus-based method for investigating pairs of semantically similar constructions and the lexemes that occur in them. The method, referred to as distinctive-collexeme analysis (Gries and Stefanowitsch 2004a), is used to determine which of the lexemes occurring in two constructions are most distinctive for either of them. On the basis of the case study concerning the imminent-NOUNconstruction versus the impending-NOUN construction, the paper demonstrates that one construction attracts some nouns more strongly than the other does. Moreover, the results of the distinctive-collexeme analysis of this pair of constructions reveal that there are clearly distinctive collexemes for each of the two constructions, and that the frame-constructional semantics is a contributing factor in the selection between these two patterns. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/101760/PDF-MASTER/LS%2038_20%20Wilinski.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/101760 PY - 2017 EP - 355 DO - 10.24425/linsi.2017.117057 A1 - Wiliński, Jarosław PB - Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach VL - vol. 38 DA - 2017 T1 - Imminent versus impending: a distinctive-collexeme analysis SP - 331 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/101760 T2 - LINGUISTICA SILESIANA ER -