This Handbook is the first authoritative reference work solely dedicated to the theory, method, and applications of Construction Grammar, and will be a resource that students and scholars alike can turn to for a representative overview of its many sub-theories and applications.

Table of Contents ; Chapter Authors ; I. Principles and methods ; 1 Construction Grammar: Introduction Thomas Hoffmann and Graeme Trousdale ; 2 Constructionist Approaches Adele E. Goldberg ; 3 The Limits of (Construction) Grammar Paul Kay ; 4 Usage-based Theory and Exemplar Representations of Constructions Joan L. Bybee ; 5 Constructions in the Parallel Architecture Ray Jackendoff ; 6 Data in Construction Grammar Stefan Th.Gries ; II. Constructionist approaches ; 7 Berkeley Construction Grammar Charles Fillmore ; 8 Sign-based Construction Grammar Laura A. Michaelis ; 9 Fluid Construction Grammar Luc Steels ; 10 Embodied Construction Grammar Ben Bergen and Nancy Chang ; 11 Cognitive Grammar Cristiano Broccias ; 12 Radical Construction Grammar William Croft ; 13 Cognitive Construction Grammar Hans Boas ; III. Constructicon: from morphemes to clauses and beyond ; 14 Morphology in Construction Grammar Geert Booij ; 15 Words and Idioms Stefanie Wulff ; 16 Collostructional Analysis Anatol Stefanowitsch ; 17 Abstract Phrasal and Clausal Constructions Thomas Hoffmann ; 18 Information Structure Jaakko Leino ; IV. Acquisition and cognition ; 19 Construction grammar and First Language Acquisition Holger Diessel ; 20 Construction grammar and Second Language Acquisition Nick Ellis ; 21 Psycholinguistics Giulia Bencini ; 22 Brain Basis of Meaning, Words, Constructions and Grammar Friedemann Pulvermuller, Yury Shtyrov and Bert Capelle ; IV. Language Variation and Change ; 23 Principles of Constructional Change Mirjam Fried ; 24 Construction-Based Historical-Comparative Reconstruction Johanna Barddal ; 25 Corpus-based approaches to constructional change Martin Hilpert ; 26 Dialects, Discourse and Construction Grammar Jan-Ola Ostman and Graeme Trousdale ; 27 Constructions in Cognitive Sociolinguistics Willem Hollmann

Thomas Hoffmann is Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Osnabrück. Graeme Trousdale is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh.