O’Donnell, M. & Ellis, N.C. Towards an Inventory of English Verb Argument Constructions. Proceedings of the Workshop on Extracting and Using Constructions in Computational Linguistics, 11th Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, (pp. 9-16) Los Angeles, June 1–6, 2010.
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., O’Donnell, M. B., & Römer, U. (2014). Second Language Verb-Argument Constructions are Sensitive to Form, Function, Frequency, Contingency, and Prototypicality. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 4 (4), 405-431. download
Ellis, N. C. with Larsen-Freeman, D. (2009). Constructing a second language: Analyses and computational simulations of the emergence of linguistic constructions from usage. Language Learning, 59, Supplement 1, 93-128. download
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.
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. (2019). Usage-based theories of Construction Grammar: Triangulating Corpus Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. In Jesse Egbert & Paul Baker (Eds.), Using Corpus Methods to Triangulate Linguistic Analysis (pp. 239-267). New York & London: Routledge. download
Römer, U., O’Donnell, M. & Ellis, N. C. (2015). Using COBUILD grammar patterns for a large-scale analysis of verb-argument constructions: Exploring corpus data and speaker knowledge. In Maggie Charles, Nick Groom, & Suganthi John (Eds.) Corpora, Grammar, Text and Discourse: In Honour of Susan Hunston (pp. 43-71). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. download
Ellis, N. C. (2018). On-line processing of Verb-Argument Constructions: Visual recognition thresholds and naming. In A. María Piquer-Píriz & R. Alejo-González (Eds.), Applying Cognitive Linguistics: Figurative language in use, constructions, and typology (pp. 105-13). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. download
Ellis, N. C. (2016). On-line processing of Verb-Argument Constructions: Lexical decision and semantic processing. Language and Cognition, 8, 391-420. 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: Visual recognition thresholds and naming. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 14 (1), 105-135. download
Römer, U., Roberson, A., O’Donnell, M. & Ellis, N. C. (2014). Linking learner corpus and experimental data in studying second language learners’ knowledge of verb-argument constructions. ICAME Journal, 38, 115-135. download
Ellis, N. C. (2017). Salience in Usage-based SLA. In Gass, S., Spinner, P., & Behney, J. (Eds.), Saliency in Second Language Acquisition. NY: Routledge. 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. (2008). Usage-based and form-focused SLA: The implicit and explicit learning of constructions. In A. Tyler, K. Yiyoung and M.Takada (Eds.) Language in the Context of Use: Cognitive and discourse approaches to language and language learning. Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter. download