“…An argument structure construction is defined as a clause-level form-function pairing which provides a means for delivering a basic proposition in language (e.g., Goldberg, 1995Goldberg, , 2006. Previous research has revealed L2 learners' increasing ability to employ complex constructions such as causatives and resultatives, along with less typical associations between constructions and verbs, in proportion to learner proficiency (e.g., Ellis & Ferreira-Junior, 2009;Kim & Rah, 2016;Kim, Shin, & Hwang, 2020;Kyle & Crossley, 2017;Sung & Kim, 2020). Crucially, however, the majority of this line of research has been skewed towards frames with concrete lexical items such as verb and preposition as a pivot (e.g., Ellis & Ferreira-Junior, 2009;Kyle, 2016;Kyle & Crossley, 2017;Römer, Roberson, O'Donnell, & Ellis, 2014).…”