Little, if any, psycholinguistic research has been done on the question of how the affective content of larger linguistic units (phrases, sentences) is tied to formal linguistic patterns, i.e. specific syntactic forms. This project intends to bring together experts from two areas of research, theoretical linguistics and neurocognitive psychology, to pool their resources in order to develop approaches to the question of how emotion and syntactic form are linked. Furthermore, the viability of a joint venture between construction grammarians and neurocognitive psychologists is to be tested by implementing and conducting a first empirical research study on the relation of syntax and emotion.