"Since its foundation in the 1980's, Construction Grammar has been crossing the traditionally imposed borders. From superimposed levels of analysis to the lexicon-grammar continuum, the constructionist approach to language has been built by, quoting Charles Fillmore, by "the insistence on seeing specific grammatical patterns as serving given semantic (and often pragmatic) purposes, and in the effort to construct a uniform theory capable of presenting both the simplest and most general aspects of language and the large world of complex grammatical structures". In this volume, five chapters derived from the plenary talks at the 9th International Conference on Construction Grammar provide a sample of the bridges the insistence and effort of construction grammarians have built in the past three decades with other analytical models - namely Cognitive Grammar and Collostructional Analysis -, perspectives - Diachronic Construction Grammar - and applications - Language Pedagogy and Natural Language Understanding. Originally published as special issue of Constructions and Frames 12:1 (2020)"--.

• Construction Grammar across Borders
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Construction grammar across borders
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Interrelations and applications of construction grammar
  • 3.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Trees, assemblies, chains, and windows
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Constituency in Cognitive Grammar
  • 3.Constituency vs. dependency
  • 4.Assemblies
    • 4.1Connections
    • 4.2Temporal dimension
    • 4.3Functions
  • 5.Architecture
  • 6.Descriptive and discursive organization
  • 7.From connection to constituent
  • 8.Seriality
  • 9.Conclusion
  • References
• Constructions, generalizations, and the unpredictability of language
  • 1.Usage-based constructionist linguistics
  • 2.A note on the nature of item-specificity and generalization
  • 3.Factors determining the occurrence of items in constructions
    • 3.1The need to make sense
    • 3.2Semantics
    • 3.3Further criteria: phonology and etymology
    • 3.4Interim conclusion
  • 4.Pre-emption
    • 4.1Competition
    • 4.2Negative entrenchment
  • 5.Items in constructions
    • 5.1Collostructions
    • 5.2Items in the ditransitive construction
    • 5.3Two adjective constructions
      • 5.3.1The it is possible to do construction
      • 5.3.2The clear that construction
      • 5.3.3The possible to do construction and the clear that construction: semantics
      • 5.3.4Unpredictability
  • 6.Constructicographic applications
    • 6.1Constructicons
    • 6.2Representing constructions in a constructicon
    • 6.3Indication of frequency
  • 7.The representation of constructions in the brain
    • 7.1The mental constructicon
    • 7.2Slot fillers
  • 8.The role of competition and the unpredictability paradox
  • 9.The undemocratic nature of language: lack of choice
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Intersubjectification in constructional change
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Formal and functional characteristics of sarcastic much?
  • 3.Gradience and constructional change in sarcastic much?
    • 3.1Intersective gradience between questions and sarcastic much?
    • 3.2Variation in the anaphoric judgment of sarcastic much?
    • 3.3From dialogical to context-free
    • 3.4From confrontation to solidarity
  • 4.Constructional change in sarcastic much?
  • 5.Concluding remarks
  • References
• From construction grammar to embodied construction practice
  • 1.The learning of patterns
  • 2.Assets of construction grammar for FLT/FLL
    • 2.1Syntactic variety of German constructions with bis
    • 2.2Semantic variety of German constructions with bis
    • 2.3Complex constructions with bis and directional adverbs
    • 2.4Morpho-syntactic description of German constructions with bis
  • 3.Pedagogical issues and teaching strategies
    • 3.1The learning of constructions – a challenging enterprise
    • 3.2Generalization and scaffolding
    • 3.3First studies on embodiment
    • 3.4Embodied construction practice
      • 3.4.1Interactive exercises with bodily engagement
      • 3.4.2Exercises with pictures
  • 4.Conclusions and future perspectives
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
• Advances in Embodied Construction Grammar
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The basics of embodied construction grammar
  • 3.Implementation
  • 4.Some additional aspects of ECG
    • 4.1Metaphor
  • 5.ECG2, system and applications
  • 6.Prospects
  • References
• Subject index