Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction: Constructions and Language -- Change -- The grammaticalization of NP of NP patterns -- Constructions and constructs:mapping a shift -- between predication and attribution -- Constructional idioms as products of linguistic -- change: the aan het + INFINITIVE construction in dutch -- Where did this future construction come from? A -- case study of Swedish komma att V -- Bedusted, yet not beheaded: The role of be-'s -- constructional properties in its conservation -- Negative verbal clause constructions in Puyuma: -- exploring constructional disharmony -- Borrowed rhetorical constructions as starting -- points for grammaticalization -- (De)grammaticalisation as a source for new -- constructions: the case of subject doubling in Dutch -- Syntax as a repository of historical relics -- Backmatter