This paper offers a renewed construction grammar analysis of linguistic constructions in a diachronic perspective. The present theory, termed Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar (AgCCxG), is informed by active inference (AIF), a process theory for the comprehension of intelligent agency. AgCCxG defends the idea that language bear traces of non-linguistic, bodily-acquired information that reflects sémiotico-biological processes of energy exchange and conservation. One of the major claims of the paper is that embodied cognition has evolved to facilitate ontogenic mental alignment among humans. This is demonstrated by the results of a corpus study in which the patterns of association between verbs, the particle UP and argument structure in Old and Middle English have been studied. The conclusion is that, similar to biological systems, the linguistic sign system displays patterns of equilibrium and non-equilibrium. In other words, while in Old English usage near equilibrium was reached through the use of a conservative set of constructional semiotic templates (attachment patterns), associated with motor modalities, Middle English displays high rates of randomness resulting in a less stable, yet distinct, system of constructional attachment.

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早期英语运动编码的符号学：古英语和中古英语短语动词的认知符号学分析

本文从历时的角度对语言构式进行了更新的构式语法分析。目前的理论，称为主动认知建构语法(AgCCxG)，由主动推理(AIF)，一种理解智能代理的过程理论。AgCCxG 捍卫这样一种观点，即语言带有非语言的、身体获得的信息的痕迹，这些信息反映了能量交换和保存的符号生物学过程。该论文的主要主张之一是，具身认知已经进化到可以促进人类个体发生的心理调整。语料库研究的结果证明了这一点，其中研究了古英语和中古英语中动词、助词 UP 和论元结构之间的关联模式。结论是，与生物系统类似，语言符号系统显示出平衡和非平衡模式。换句话说，