The notion 'construction' has become indispensable in present-day linguistics and in language studies in general. Addressing a number of issues (such as coercion, discourse patterning, language change), this book shows how CxG must be part and parcel of cognitively oriented studies of language, including language universals.

1. The Cognitive grounding of Constructional Grammar (by Ostman, Jan-Ola); 2. Theoretical extensions; 3. Argument realization: The role of constructions, lexical semantics and discourse factors (by Goldberg, Adele E.); 4. Entity and event coercion in a symbolic theory of syntax (by Michaelis, Laura A.); 5. Frames, profiles and constructions: Two collaborating CGs meet the Finnish Permissive Construction (by Leino, Jaakko); 6. Construction Discourse: A prolegomenon (by Ostman, Jan-Ola); 7. Construction Grammars; 8. Embodied Construction Grammar in simulation-based language understanding (by Bergen, Benjamin K.); 9. Constructions in Conceptual Semantics (by Nikanne, Urpo); 10. Constructions in Word Grammar (by Holmes, Jasper); 11. Logical and typological arguments for Radical Construction Grammar (by Croft, William A.); 12. Subject Index; 13. Index of constructions

One of the strengths of this volume is without a doubt, the excellent overview and comparisons of the different formalisms available for construction grammarians, both unification-based formalisms and others. It is inspiring to see so many academics raise themselves above their own theoretical models in order to bring to the fore the commonalities and joint aspects of various different, although seemingly related, frameworks, as is evident here.