Why Include Recurrent Constructed Action (CA) in a Dictionary?

This is the extended abstract of the presentation "Why Include Recurrent Constructed Action (CA) in a Dictionary?" given at TISLR 2022 in Osaka, Japan.

Based on the descriptions of recurrent gestures in the field of gesture studies and recent works on usage-based approaches to lexicalization, argue that certain uses of CA may be described within a dictionary, assuming that there is a continuum from highly productive to entrenched or even conventionalized uses of CA.