Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Conventions. List of Predictor Variables and their Abbreviations -- Tables -- Figures -- Chapter 1. Introduction and overview -- Chapter 2. Entrenchment in usage-based theories -- Chapter 3. The cognitive realism of usage-based generalizations, with a special focus on the relationship between token frequencies and entrenchment -- Chapter 4. Operationalizing entrenchment -- Chapter 5. Experimental design -- Chapter 6. Behavioural data analysis -- Chapter 7. Neuroimaging Data Analysis -- Chapter 8. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Appendixes. Auxiliary Figures on Neuroanatomy, Concluding questionnaire, and Stimuli -- Index