För tre enorma öl sedan 91 För tre enorma öl sedan Befästning av semi-schematiska konstruktioner i L2-svenska Av JOEL OLOFSSON & JULIA PRENTICE Abstract Olofsson, Joel, joel.olofsson@hv.se, Ph.D., Division of Educational Science and Languages, Uni- versity West; Prentice, Julia, julia.prentice@svenska.gu.se, Ph.D., Department of Swedish, Uni- versity of Gothenburg: “Three enormous beers ago. The entrenchment of semi-schematic construc- tions in L2 Swedish”. Språk och stil NF 30, 2020, pp. 91–116. This article investigates the entrenchment of semi-schematic time constructions in both L1- and L2-speakers of Swedish. High frequency expressions are often considered highly entrenched in the mind of speakers, which means that those expressions are recognized, accessed and retrieved faster than low frequency expressions. We present a phrasal decision experiment carried out on L1 and L2 speakers of Swedish, in which the task was to decide as quickly as possible if the stimulus expression is a legitimate way to express time in Swedish. The results show that frequent instances of a semi-schematic time construction are processed faster as well as with a higher decision accuracy than nonce expressions in both L1 and L2 groups. For the L1 group, rare instances are processed with intermediate speed and with relatively high ac- curacy. For the group of L2 participants, rare instances have low decision accuracy and longer re- sponse times than nonce expressions. On the basis of these data, the study suggest that a more ex- tended construction is entrenched in the L1 group, compared to the more restricted construction entrenched in the L2 group. Keywords: construction grammar, entrenchment, multiword units, L2 learning, psycholinguistics. 1 Inledning Inom konstruktionsgrammatisk forskning tog man tidigt fasta på att språk inte enbart består av grammatiska och lexikala enheter, utan också av semi-schema- Vi vill tacka de anonyma granskarna för värdefulla synpunkter på en tidigare version av artikeln. Vi vill också tacka deltagarna vid konferensen Konstruktioner i Norden (CxGN1) i Kiel 2019, samt Seminariet i lexikologi, lexikografi och fraseologi vid Göteborgs universitet, för givande respons på de presentationer som ligger till grund för denna artikel. Dessutom tackar vi Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället (KVVS), som har stött vårt arbete ekonomiskt genom resebidrag till en av författarna i samband med datainsamlingen. Ur Språk & stil NF 30, 2020 https://doi.org/10.33063/diva-427676