List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; To readers: Why you shouldn't pick up, let alone read, this book;1: Introducing Construction Grammar; 2: Argument structure constructions; 3: Inside the construct-i-con; 4:Constructional morphology; 5: Information packaging constructions; 6: Constructions and language processing; 7: Constructions and language acquisition; 8: Language variation and change; 9:Constructions in spoken language; 10 Constructions across Grammars; 11 Concluding remarks; References; Index