Robinson, P. and N. Ellis, N.C. (Eds.) (2008) Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. London: Routledge. Link to the book
Reviewed in Modern Language Journal
Reviewed in Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics
Reviewed in Canadian Journal of Linguistics
Ellis, N. C. & Cadierno, T. (2009). Constructing a second language. Introduction to the Special Section. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 7, 111-139. download
Ellis, N. C., Römer, U. & O’Donnell, M. B. (2016). Usage-based Approaches to Language Acquisition and Processing: Cognitive and Corpus Investigations of Construction Grammar. Language Learning Monograph Series. Wiley-Blackwell. This was published as a monograph in 2016. It may well now be out of print. But it was jointly published as Language Learning 66 Supplement 1 and if you can access Language Learning, you can access this.
Reviewed in Review of Cognitive Linguistics (2017) by Teresa Cadierno
Reviewed in ICAME Journal (2017) by Fanny Meunier
Reviewed in Applied Linguistics (2017) by Gaëtanelle Gilquin
Reviewed in Functions of Language (2017) by Annette Fahrner
Reviewed in Cognitive Linguistics (2018) by Andrea Tyler
Reviewed in International Journal of Learner Corpus Research (2018) by Mark McAndrews
Ellis, N. C. (2003). Constructions, chunking, and connectionism: The emergence of second language structure. In C. Doughty & M. H. Long (Eds.), Handbook of second language acquisition (pp. 33-68). Oxford: Blackwell. download
Ellis, N. C. (2022) Second language learning of morphology. Journal of the European Second Language Association, 6(1), 34–59. download the pdf article.
Ellis, N. C. & Robinson, P. (2008). An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Language Instruction. Chapter 1 in P. Robinson & N. C. Ellis (Eds.), A handbook of cognitive linguistics and SLA. London: Routledge download
Ellis, N. C. (2008). Usage-based and Form-focused Language Acquisition: The Associative Learning of Constructions, Learned-attention, and the Limited L2 Endstate. Chapter 16 in P. Robinson and N. Ellis (Eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. London: Routledge download
Robinson, P., & Ellis, N. C. (2008). Conclusion: Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition and Instruction—Issues for Research. Chapter 19 in P. Robinson & N. C. Ellis (Eds.), A handbook of cognitive linguistics and SLA. London: Routledge. download
Ellis, N. C. & Ferreira-Junior, F. (2009). Construction learning as a function of frequency, frequency distribution, and function. Modern Language Journal, 93, 370-385. download
Ellis, N. C. & Ferreira-Junior, F. (2009). Constructions and their acquisition: Islands and the distinctiveness of their occupancy. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 7, 188-221. download
Römer, U., Skalicky, S., & Ellis, N. C. (2020). Verb-argument constructions in advanced L2 English learner production: Insights from corpora and verbal fluency tasks. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 16 (2), 303-331. DOI:10.1515/cllt-2016-0055 download
Ellis, N. C., O’Donnell, M. B., & Römer, U. (2014). The Processing of Verb-Argument Constructions is Sensitive to Form, Function, Frequency, Contingency, and Prototypicality. Cognitive Linguistics, 25 (1), 55-98. download
Ellis, N. C. & Wulff, S. (2020). Usage-based approaches to L2 acquisition. In VanPatten, B., Keating, G. D., & Wulff, S. (Eds.), Theories in Second Language Acquisition: An introduction. (pp. 63-82). New York & London: Routledge. download
Ellis, N. C. (2016) Frequency in language learning and language change. In Heike Behrens & Stefan Pfänder (Eds.), Experience counts: Frequency effects in language (pp. 239-256). Berlin: de Gruyter. download
Ellis, N. C. (2019). Essentials of a theory of language cognition. Modern Language Journal, 103 (Supplement 2019), 39-60. DOI: 10.1111/modl.12532. Link to Online Article
Ellis, N. C. & O’Donnell, M. B. (2014) Construction learning as category learning: A cognitive analysis. In T. Herbst, S. Schueller, and H-J. Schmid (Eds.), Constructions – Collocations – Patterns (pp. 63-89). Berlin: de Gruyter.
Ellis, N. C. (2010). Constructing a second language: Learning as a function of frequency, frequency distribution, form and function. In M. Pütz and L. Sicola (Eds.) Cognitive Processing in Second Language Acquisition: Inside the Learner’s Mind (pp. 27-48). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. download
Römer, U., O’Donnell, M. B., & Ellis, N. C. (2014). Second Language Learner Knowledge of Verb–Argument Constructions: Effects of Language Transfer and Typology. Modern Language Journal, 98 (4), 952-975. download
Ellis, N. C. (2016). On-line processing of Verb-Argument Constructions: Lexical decision and semantic processing. Language and Cognition, 8, 391-420. download
Ellis, N. C. (2016). On-line processing of Verb-Argument Constructions: Visual recognition thresholds and naming. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 14 (1), 105-135. download
Ellis, N. C. (2008). The dynamics of second language emergence: Cycles of language use, language change, and language acquisition. Modern Language Journal, 92:2, 232-249. download
Ellis, N. C., & Schmidt, R. (1997). Morphology and longer-distance dependencies: Laboratory research illuminating the A in SLA. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 19, 145-171. download