Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. PDE ditransitives in usage-based construction grammar -- 3. Ditransitives in the history of English -- 4. Ditransitives in a corpus of Middle English -- 5. Evolutionary linguistics and Evolutionary Game Theory -- 6. Evolutionary construction grammar -- 7. Competition and cooperation in the English dative alternation: An evolutionary construction grammar account -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index