“…Other issues that have been addressed are the mechanisms underlying the extension of a construction to new lexical items (cf., e.g., Boas 2011), the productivity of constructions (e.g., Barddal 2008), the diachronic development of valencies (Kohler 2005), the distribution of valency frames within the lexicon (Steiner 2011;Duwaerts and Ullmann 2013), the role of frequency in argument structure acquisition (Tomasello 2003;Behrens 2011), and the attraction between lexical elements that fill different slots in argument structure patterns (e.g., Engelberg et al 2011). Schulte im Walde (2003, 2009 employed frequency data in order to automatically induce verb classes from the distribution of valency frames.…”