Grammaticalization research has increasingly highlighted the notion of constructions in the last decade. In the wake of this heightened interest, efforts have b

Construction Grammar as a framework offers a new perspective on traditional historical questions in diachronic linguistics and language change: how do new const

Based mostly on papers presented at the First International Conference on Construction Grammar, 2001.

Construction Grammar explains how knowledge of language is organized in speakers' minds. The central and radical claim of Construction Grammar is that linguisti

This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from th