Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Usage and structure: The case of clausal complementation -- What conversational English tells us about the nature of grammar:A critique of Thompson's analysis of object complements -- Usage, structure, scientific explanation, and the role of abstraction, by linguists and by language users -- Raising verbs and auxiliaries in a functional theory of grammatical status -- The rise of structure -- How not to disagree: The emergence of structure from usage -- Paradigmatic structure in a usage-based theory of grammaticalisation -- Where do simple clauses come from? -- Structure, usage and variation -- Alternative agreement controllers in Danish: Usage or structure? -- Schmidt redux: How systematic is the linguistic system if variation is rampant? -- More tiles on the roof: Further thoughts on incremental language production -- Reconciling structure and usage: On the advantages of a dynamic, dialogic conception of the linguistic sign -- Methodology -- Ten unwarranted assumptions in syntactic argumentation -- Backmatter