This collection of articles brings together new research from both established and emerging
international experts in the study of English grammar all of whom have engaged with the notion
of 'construction' in their work. The research here is concerned with both synchrony and
diachrony with the relationship between Construction Grammar and other linguistic theories
and with a number of issues in the study of grammar such as raising and control phenomena
transitivity relative clause structure the syntax of gerunds attributive and predicative
uses of adjectives modality and grammaticalization. Some of the articles are written within a
constructional framework while others highlight potential problems with constructional
approaches to English grammar some of the articles are based on data collected from corpora
some on introspection some of the articles suggest potential developments for diachronic
construction grammar while others seek to compare Construction Grammar with other cognitive
linguistic theories most particularly Word Grammar. The research reported in this volume
presents a series of ways of looking at the relationship between constructions and patterns in
English grammar either now or in the past. The book addresses scholars and advanced students
who are interested in English grammar constructional approaches to language and the
relationship between functional and formal issues in linguistic description and theory.
