1. Introduction: Zooming in (by Schulze, Rainer); 2. Part I. Setting the scene; 3. Technology and phraseology: With notes on the history of corpus linguistics (by Stubbs, Michael); 4. Corpus-driven approaches to grammar: The search for common ground (by Hoey, Michael); 5. Valency - item-specificity and idiom principle (by Herbst, Thomas); 6. Fowler's Modern English Usage at the interface of lexis and grammar (by Busse, Ulrich); 7. The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (1): Lexical access (by Ellis, Nick C.); 8. Part II. Considering the particulars; 9. The lexicogrammar of present-day Indian English: Corpus-based perspectives on structural nativisation (by Mukherjee, Joybrato); 10. The semantic and grammatical overlap of as and that: Evidence from non-standard English (by Kolbe-Hanna, Daniela); 11. The historical development of the verb doubt and its various patterns of complementation (by Iyeiri, Yoko); 12. The grammatical properties of recurrent phrases with body-part nouns: The N1 to N1 pattern (by Lindquist, Hans); 13. A corpus-based investigation of cognate object constructions (by Hoche, Silke); 14. Revisiting the evidence for objects in English (by Meyer, Matthias L.G.); 15. Lexico-functional categories and complex collocations: The case of intensifiers (by Cacchiani, Silvia); 16. Polysemy and lexical priming: The case of drive (by Tsiamita, Fanie); 17. Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns (by Mahlberg, Michaela); 18. Loud signatures: Comparing evaluative discourse styles - patterns in rants and riffs (by Duguid, Alison); 19. Index