Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 1. What is near-synonymy? -- 2. Theoretical framework: basic concepts -- 2.1. Cognitive Grammar and construal -- 2.2. Radical Construction Grammar and sets of constructions -- 2.3. Prototype Theory and the structure of categories -- 2.3.1. Horizontal and vertical category structure -- 2.3.2. Category structure representations -- 3. Methodology: a distribution-based approach -- 4. Outline of this book -- 2. Degrees of event integration: delineating groups of near-synonyms -- 1. Are all [Vfin Vinf] structures created equal? -- 1.1. Near-synonyms: between grammar and lexicon? -- 1.2. Theoretical motivations for taking a construction-based approach to delineation -- 1.3. Methodology and data collection -- 2. Three parameters -- 2.1. Reification and the argument structure of the finite verb -- 2.1.1. Referential inclusion under a bare case pattern -- 2.1.2. Referential inclusion under a prepositional pattern -- 2.1.3. Absence of referential inclusion -- 2.1.4. Summary: something versus do something -- 2.1.5. An interpretation: on things and (atemporal) relations -- 2.2. Objectification and that-complementation -- 2.2.1. Èto-complementation -- 2.2.2. Ètoby-complementation -- 2.2.3. Absence of that-complementation -- 2.2.4. Summary: clausal remnants? -- 2.2.5. An interpretation: distancing and objective construal -- 2.3. Distancing and the temporal event-structure of the finite verb -- 2.3.1. Temporal separability -- 2.3.2. Temporal inseparability -- 2.3.3. Summary: on time -- 2.3.4. An interpretation: bounded events -- 3. Degrees of verb integration: a binding scale for Russian -- 3.1. Eight logical combination possibilities -- 3.2. Reflecting the degrees of verb integration -- 3.3. Degrees of verb integration and verb classes -- 3.4. Main conclusions and an outlook.

3.4.1. Support for the main conclusions -- 3.4.2. An outlook -- 3. Ways of intending: constructional frames for lexicographical portraits -- 1. A note on aspectual peculiarities -- 1.1. A very brief overview of theoretical aspectual analyses -- 1.2. Bifurcation and tripartition of M-verbs -- 1.2.1. Aspectual derivation and logical implication -- 1.2.2. Lexical aspect -- 2. Constructional differences: meaning contours of plans and intentions -- 2.1. Something versus Doing Something -- 2.2. Clausal Remnants -- 2.3. On Time -- 3. How constructions contrast plans and intentions -- 4. Summary: Implications of a network-based delineation of near-synonyms -- 4. Clustering Behavioral Profiles: structuring groups of near-synonyms -- 1. Are all near-synonyms equally similar? -- 1.1. The delineation problem -- 1.2. The structuring problem -- 1.3. The description problem -- 2. Behavioral Profiles as a measure of similarity -- 2.1. The data -- 2.2. The parameters -- 2.2.1. Operationalization and annotation of formal properties -- 2.2.2. Operationalization and annotation of semantic properties -- 3. Clustering Behavioral Profiles -- 3.1. Hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis -- 3.2. A three-cluster solution -- 3.3. Discriminating the variables that drive the clustering -- 3.4. A more detailed look at each of the three clusters -- 3.5. Interpreting the three clusters -- 4. An interim conclusion -- 5. Ways of TRYING: describing scales of variation in a radial category -- 1. Prototype Theory -- 1.1. The structure of natural categories -- 1.1.1. Horizontal category structure -- 1.1.2. Vertical category structure -- 1.1.3. Category structure representations -- 1.2. The structure of linguistic categories -- 1.2.1. Relational versus non-relational concepts -- 1.2.2. Tangible vs. intangible concepts -- 2. Prototype Semantics.

2.1. Prototype effects for intangible, relational concepts -- 2.2. The structure of categories of near-synonyms -- 2.3. Prototypes for near-synonyms -- 3. A radial structure for the category try in Russian -- 4. Prototype effects in a radial category -- 4.1. Is there a prototypical attempt? -- 4.2. A proposal for scales of variation between elements in clusters -- 4.2.1. Try, try again, [You Could Succeed] -- 4.2.2. Don't bother trying, [You Won't Succeed] -- 4.2.3. Try as you might, [You Can't Succeed] -- 5. Ways of trying: what language reveals about attempts -- 6. Beyond Behavioral Profiles -- 1. Behavioral Profiles' prediction accuracy -- 1.1. Evaluating the predictive success of the BP approach -- 1.1.1. A new statistical technique for an adapted try-dataset -- 1.1.2. Predicting verb classification -- 1.2. Assessing the impact of the individual variables and variable levels -- 1.2.1. Pytat'sja versus the rest -- 1.2.2. Starat'sja versus the rest -- 1.2.3. Probovat' versus the rest -- 1.2.4. Silit'sja versus the rest -- 1.2.5. Norovit' versus the rest -- 1.2.6. Poryvat'sja versus the rest -- 1.2.7. Summary -- 2. How words contrive to and constrain constructions -- 2.1. Atypical arguments? -- 2.1.1. Exploring constructional variation -- 2.1.2. Back to the roots -- 2.2. Building blocks meet something larger -- 2.2.1. Constructional patterning -- 2.2.2. Contextual patterning -- 2.3. A(nother) cline -- 3. Intuitions or clusters? -- 3.1. What shapes our intentions? -- 3.1.1. Parameters and Method -- 3.1.2. Introducing intentions -- 3.2. An overall cluster solution -- 3.3. Clustering selected tags -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 4. Clusters in the mind? -- 4.1. Solovyev and Bajras¡eva's (2007) "psycho-semantic" follow-up of Divjak and Gries (2006).

4.2. Experimental validation for the existence of lexical clusters -- 4.2.1. Sorting tasks -- 4.2.2. Gap-filling -- 4.3. Mental correlates of corpus-based lexical clusters -- 5. By way of summary -- 6. What does language have to offer the learner? -- Appendix -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.