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The English language is famous for its large number of drunkonyms, i.e. words that can be used to refer to the state of drunkenness – from  blind  and  hammered  to  pissed ,  smashed  and  wasted . Various lists of words have been compiled in the past (e.g.  Levine 1981 ). However, most of the terms seem to be relatively infrequent, and they also appear to fall out of use relatively quickly. In view of  Michael McIntyre’s (2009)  claim that it is possible to use any word to mean ‘drunk’ in English, this contribution therefore approaches the issue from a constructionist perspective. In a corpus-based study, we tested whether it is possible to model the expression of drunkenness in English as a more or less schematic (set of) construction(s). Our study shows that while corpus evidence for truly creative uses is scarce, we can nonetheless identify constructional and collostructional properties shared by certain patterns that are used to express drunkenness in English. For instance, the pattern  be / get  + ADV + drunkonym is strongly associated with premodifying (and often strongly intensifying) adverbs such as  completely ,  totally  and  absolutely . A manual analysis of a large wordlist of English drunkonyms reveals further interesting patterns that can be modelled constructionally.

“I’m gonna get totally and utterly X-ed.” Constructing drunkenness