Fried M. Östman J-O. (ed.) Construction Grammar in a Cross-Language Perspective

Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004. — 216 p. — (Constructional Approaches to Language).
This volume gives an easily accessible, yet comprehensive, sophisticated, and example-rich introduction to Construction Grammar as it has been developed from the early 1980’s by Charles J. Fillmore and his associates. It also provides a succinct account of the historical and intellectual background of the model and shows how Construction Grammar can easily be applied to typologically very different languages and to a variety of language-specific phenomena. All of the contributors to the volume came out of the Fillmorean school at UC-Berkeley and have worked consistently on applying and further developing the model in various domains of linguistic analysis.