Chapter 1: Description of the topic and state of the art

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements v
3. Table of contents vii
4. Part I: Preliminaries
5. Chapter 1: Description of the topic and state of the art 2
6. Chapter 2: A cognitive-functional constructional framework for the English NP 41
7. Chapter 3: Grammaticalization, delexicalization and subjectification in SN- and TN-constructions 79
8. Part II: Synchronic and diachronic corpus studies
9. Chapter 4: SN-constructions 123
10. Chapter 5: Small SN-constructions 234
11. Chapter 6: TN-constructions 270
12. Chapter 7: Descriptive-theoretical consequences and prospects for further research 357
13. Corpora 362
14. Notes 364
15. References 377
16. Index 404