关键词: 构式, 覆盖面, 统计先占, 二语习得

Abstract: The paper reviews Explain Me This：Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions by Goldberg, which symbolizes that Goldbergs constructional view has gradually matured from the initial theoretical creation to the description of the essential features of language and then to the application of the theory. Furthermore, in this work, the constraints of the productivity of construction are discussed by invoking the concepts of psycholinguistics and statistics:coverage and statistical preemption, which also provide a new perspective for the integration of linguistic research and other disciplines to jointly explain the ontology of language. At the same time, the paper provides appropriate solutions to the difficulties and challenges encountered by adult second language learners in the process of learning a foreign language, which further highlights the explanatory power of construction grammar.

Key words: construction, coverage, statistical preemption, second language acquisition