Table of Contents

1. Historical and intellectual background of Construction Grammar (by Ostman, Jan-Ola); 2. Construction Grammar: A thumbnail sketch (by Fried, Mirjam); 3. Predicate semantics and event construal in Czech case marking (by Fried, Mirjam); 4. Lexically (un)filled constructional schemes and construction types: The case of Japanese modal conditional constructions (by Fujii, Seiko); 5. On the interaction of information structure and formal structure in constructions: The case of French right-detached comme-N (by Lambrecht, Knud); 6. Index