Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- From collocations and patterns to constructions - an introduction -- First language learning from a usage-based approach -- Item-based patterns in early syntactic development -- Construction learning as category learning: A cognitive analysis -- Pattern grammar in context -- Frames, constructions, and FrameNet -- The valency approach to argument structure constructions -- Collostructional analysis: A case study of the English into-causative -- Lexico-grammatical patterns, pragmatic associations and discourse frequency -- Index