Abstract Abstract: Very often, we can generalize the morphological constructions (Booij, 2010) of particular words directly, like most of the current construction grammar researches do. For instance, we can generalize naming constructions just from such webwords as da.yi ge and di.tou zu as [X-H]N ←→[Hfeaturing X]naming, acronym constructions just from gao.da.shang and xi.da.pu.ben as [I1I2…In] ←→ [SEMword1+SEMword2+…+SEMwordn]idiom. We call this type of words ‘surface construction words’, because the surface form of their constructions correspond directly to their semantic contents without obvious derivation, supporting Goldberg’s (2006) surface generalization hypothesis (SGH). Nevertheless, some words do come through derivations, such as the elliptical type of words like wang.gou, wo.ju, and miao.sha, the coinage and interpretation of which take cognitive derivations including profiling and backgrounding, among constructions of various degrees of abstraction, from bottom to surface. Only with the conception of deep construction and cognitive derivation can we explain the coinage of some complex words as well as find the common roots of some seemingly different words.
Key words: construction morphology; surface construction; deep construction; construction grammar; internet language
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