Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Chapter 1. Applying constructional concepts to Romance languages 1
5. Chapter 2. The role of constructional meanings in novel verb-noun compounds in Spanish 37
6. Chapter 3. From lexicalization to constructional generalizations 79
7. Chapter 4. A constructional corpus-based approach to ‘weak’ verbs in French 113
8. Chapter 5. The Narrative Infinitive Construction in French and Latin 139
9. Chapter 6. Bringing together fragments and constructions 181
10. Chapter 7. A Romance perspective on gapping constructions 227
11. Chapter 8. Variable type framing in Spanish constructions of directed motion 269
12. Author index 305
13. Construction index 309
14. Language index 311
15. Subject index 313