Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Part I: Preliminaries -- Chapter 1: Description of the topic and state of the art -- Chapter 2: A cognitive-functional constructional framework for the English NP -- Chapter 3: Grammaticalization, delexicalization and subjectification in SN- and TN-constructions -- Part II: Synchronic and diachronic corpus studies -- Chapter 4: SN-constructions -- Chapter 5: Small SN-constructions -- Chapter 6: TN-constructions -- Chapter 7: Descriptive-theoretical consequences and prospects for further research -- Corpora -- Notes -- References -- Index