3 Inside the construct-i-con

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of tables and figures x
4. Preface to the first edition: Why you shouldn’t pick up, let alone read, this book xi
5. Preface to the second edition xiii
6. Acknowledgements xv
7. 1 Introducing Construction Grammar 1
8. 2 Argument structure constructions 25
9. 3 Inside the construct-i-con 50
10. 4 Constructional morphology 75
11. 5 Information packaging constructions 102
12. 6 Constructions and language processing 130
13. 7 Constructions and language acquisition 155
14. 8 Language variation and change 179
15. 9 Constructions in spoken language 208
16. 10 Constructions across grammars 233
17. 11 Concluding remarks 255
18. References 258
19. Index 275