Preface List of abbreviations 1 Theoretical Foundations 1.1 Linguistic signs and constructions 1.2 Inheritance network of constructions 1.3 Why constructions? 1.3.1 Constructional meaning 1.3.2 No core and peripheral distinction 1.
3.3 Extraordinary creativity and productivity 1.4 Sign-Based Construction Grammar 1.4.1 Basic architecture: Linguistic objects, modelling, and descriptions 1.4.2 Lexical signs 1.4.
3 Phrasal constructions and combinatorial rules 1.4.4 Compositional semantics 1.4.5 Semantic composition and constructional meaning 1.5 Conclusion 2 Mapping between Form and Function 2.1 Mismatches among grammatical components 2.1.
1 Extended notion of sign and isomorphic relations 2.1.2 Non-isomorphic mappings: complexity and content mismatch 2.2 Grammatical categories and functions 2.3 Grammatical categories and meaning 2.4 Form and meaning in raising 2.5 Form and meaning in binominal NPs 2.6 More on mismatch phenomena in grammar 2.
7 Conclusion 3 Simple and Complex NP Constructions 3.1 NP structures 3.1.1 NP vs. DP hypothesis 3.1.2 Clausal properties of nominals 3.2 Agreement phenomena 3.
2.1 Agreement features 3.2.2 Configurational and constraint-based views 3.2.3 Against purely syntactic or semantic agreement 3.3 A construction-based approach 3.3.
1 Hybrid agreement 3.3.2 Determiner-head agreement 3.3.3 Subject-verb agreement 3.3.4 Agreement in coordination 3.4 Partitive constructions 3.
4.1 Partitive vs. pseudo-partitive 3.4.2 Two subtypes 3.4.3 Welcome consequences 3.5 Pseudo-partitive constructions 3.
5.1 Issues in simple syntactic structures 3.5.2 Pseudo-partitives with a measure noun 3.5.3 Pseudo-partitives with a quantity noun 3.5.4 Pseudo-partitives with a collective noun 3.
6 Conclusion 4 Verb-Particle Constructions 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Basic grammatical properties 4.2.1 Syntactic patterns 4.2.2 Semantic patterns: compositional vs. idiomatic 4.
3 Previous analyses 4.3.1 Transformational analyses 4.3.2 Ternary structure analyses 4.3.3 Small clause analyses 4.3.
4 Compound analyses 4.4 A construction-based analysis 4.4.1 Verb-particle sequence as a verb-complex construction 4.4.2 Predicative vs. non-predicative constructions 4.4.
3 Extensions of the argument structure constructions 4.4.4 Interacting with information structure 4.5 Conclusion 5 VP Ellipsis and Fronting 5.1 Introduction 5.2 General properties 5.3 Invisible syntactic structures? 5.4 A construction-based analysis 5.
5 Antecedent identification and mismatches 5.6 VPE in other environments 5.6.1 VPE with negation 5.6.2 VPE in infinitival clauses 5.7 VP fronting 5.8 Conclusion 6 Free Relative Clause Constructions 6.
1 Introduction 6.2 Free relatives and interrogatives 6.3 Externally nominal and internally clausal properties 6.4 Matching effects 6.5 Mismatching effects 6.6 Previous analyses 6.7 A construction-based analysis 6.7.
1 Key points of the analysis 6.7.2 Capturing mismatching effects 6.8 Transparent free relative clause 6.8.1 Some key properties 6.8.2 Previous analyses 6.
8.3 A construction-based analysis 6.8.4 Welcome consequences 6.9 Conclusion 7 Extraposition Constructions 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Basic properties 7.2.
1 Subject extraposition 7.2.2 Object extraposition 7.3 Movement analyses 7.3.1 For subject extraposition 7.3.2 For object extraposition 7.
4 A construction-based analysis 7.4.1 Generalizations over lexical cla.