Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction
4. Theory and data in cognitive linguistics 1
5. Frequencies, probabilities, and association measures in usage-/exemplar-based linguistics 15
6. Reconstructing constructional semantics 49
7. The historical development of the it -cleft 87
8. Theory and data in diachronic Construction Grammar 115
9. The semantics of definite expressions and the grammaticalization of THE 141
10. Cognitive explanations, distributional evidence, and diachrony 185
11. Word classes 211
12. Smashing new results on aspectual framing 239
13. Index 261