Frontmatter -- Contents -- Constructional approaches to language-particular -- description -- 1. The English gerund -- Gerunds, categories and constructions -- Approaches to the English gerund -- Constructions in grammaticalization and -- lexicalization: Evidence from the history of a composite predicate -- construction in English -- 2. Constructions and corpora -- Corpus approaches to constructions -- English relative clauses and Construction Grammar: -- A topic which preposition placement can shed light on? -- Shall and shan t in contemporary English - a case -- of functional condensation -- Constraints on the attributive use of -- "predicative-only" adjectives: A reassessment -- 3. Constructions and lexicalism -- Constructions and lexical approaches -- Antitransitivity and constructionality -- Dependencies are constructions: A case study in -- predicative complementation -- Word Grammar and Construction Grammar -- Backmatter