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This study investigates syntactic and semantic features of the English concessive construction  just because X doesn’t mean Y  ( JB-X DM-Y ) grounded in Goldberg’s theory of construction grammar. Based on initial data collected from the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), our qualitative analysis proved that: (1) syntactically, there should be an unexpressed pronoun  it  or  that  serving as the subject of the  DM-Y  part. The quantitative analysis revealed the productivity of  JB-X DM-Y . In terms of vocabulary,  just  and  mean  in the construction can be replaced by the adverb  simply  and verbs indicating inference or making assertions. In terms of structure,  JB-X NEG-VP  and  JB-X NEG-CLAUSE  were widely used, and  JB-X QUESTION  exhibited certain productivity; and (2) semantically,  JB-X DM-Y  should be seen as the negation of the construction  Y, because X . It presented the meaning of inference denial and concessive meaning, corresponding to the inferential- because  construction and causal- because  construction. This article provides a systemic discussion about  JB-X DM-Y  and hopes to provide a basic structure for the future analysis of  JB-X DM-Y .

A corpus-based analysis of the concessive construction just because X doesn’t mean Y