10.18710/8E0X4R Eckhoff, Hanne Martine Hanne Martine Eckhoff https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8096-6515 DataverseNO 2015 Arts and Humanities Old Church Slavonic argument structure syntactic productivity Field: Semantics Topic: case Topic: verbs Topic: adpositions Time-depth: diachronic Time-depth: synchronic UiT The Arctic University of Norway The The Arctic University of Norway The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) UiT The Arctic University of Norway Eckhoff, Hanne Martine Hanne Martine Eckhoff 2015 2015 2015-02-24 2015-03-30 2023-09-28 corpus 10037.1/10180 urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-264959 16944 5204 6910604 9171 44945 text/plain; charset=UTF-8 text/plain; charset=UTF-8 text/plain; charset=US-ASCII text/plain; charset=UTF-8 application/pdf 1.2 Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Data set for a study of the locative argument structure construction in Old Church Slavonic. In this article I examine an argument structure construction on its deathbed, namely, the Old Church Slavonic (OCS) bare locative argument construction. Why does the construction even exist when the pattern it instantiates is otherwise dead? What happens to the verbs involved, and which argument structure constructions take over? I take a usage-based approach to syntactic productivity to examine what happens in such cases. In many ways, this approach can account for the observed development. The final stronghold of the locative construction was a small group of highly semantically coherent verbs. When the construction was lost, the verbs joined other argument constructions, preferably constructions that were also highly semantically coherent, but not necessarily very type frequent. However, syntactic productivity alone cannot explain the patterns of attraction: we must also look at the semantic and formal fit. Norge,