As an introduction to usage-based approaches in construction grammar, this book presents the central concepts, principles, schools of thought, and the latest research in Germanist linguistics. The new, completely revised and corrected edition provides new impulses, discussing current insights into the relationship between pattern, construction, and schema, and developing a model-like construction network of the German language.

Alexander Ziem, University of Düsseldorf, Germany; Alexander Lasch, TU Dresden, Germany.