Relating to or involving construction, the process of building, or the way something is built or put together.
From construction (from Latin construere) + -al (adjective suffix meaning 'of or relating to'). Emerged in the late 1700s to describe aspects related to the building process.
In linguistics, 'construction grammar' revolutionized how we understand language by treating phrases and patterns as meaningful units, not just combinations of individual words—meaning emerges from the whole structure, not just the parts.
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