Imo undertakes an empirical analysis of constructions with ten verbs capable of being used in matrix sentences to combine the approaches of and " and "Conversation Research and " and ", and " and "Conversational Analysis and " and " and " and "Interactional Linguistics and " and " with the theory of language and grammar advanced by and " and "Construction Grammar and " and ". He enquires into the advantages which the theory-poor and " and "Conversational Research and " and " could derive from a framework theory and examines whether and " and "Construction Grammar and " and " is adequate to the task of providing this framework, i.e. is able to describe the units of spoken language.