1. Introduction -- 1.1 The issue -- 1.2 Aims and scope -- 1.3 Structure of the book -- 2. Towards a usage-based model of constructional generalisation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Incipient productivity: From collocations to constructional schemas -- 2.3 Theoretical framework -- 2.3.1 Usage-based construction grammar -- 2.3.2 Cognitive semantics -- 2.3.3 Models of constructional generalisation -- 2.4 Previous research -- 2.4.1 Insights from research on construction learning -- 2.4.2 Insights from research on constructional change -- 2.4.3 Insights from research on constructional variation -- 2.5 Chapter summary -- 3. Testing ground: Intensity collocations -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Intensity and intensification -- 3.2.1 Intensification as a linguistic function -- 3.2.2 Intensifier variation and change -- 3.3 Conceptualising intensification -- 3.3.1 Intensification strategies in English and German -- 3.3.2 PERCEPTION intensifiers -- 3.4 Constructing intensification -- 3.4.1 Construction A: Int + N -- 3.4.2 Construction B: Int + Adj -- 3.4.3 Construction C: Int + with/vor + N -- 3.5 Objectives -- 3.6 Chapter summary -- 4. Lexicalisation patterns: From concepts to words -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Prerequisites -- 4.2.1 The corpus-linguistic study of lexicalisation patterns -- 4.2.2 Data -- 4.3 Procedure -- 4.3.1 Setting up the search space -- 4.3.2 Data extraction and coding -- 4.4 Results -- 4.4.1 Overview -- 4.4.2 Construction A -- 4.4.3 Construction B -- 4.4.4 Construction C -- 4.5 Summary and discussion -- 5. Fixed expressions: From words to collocations -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Prerequisites -- 5.2.1 Formulaicity and creativity -- 5.2.2 Corpus data as clues to cognitive entrenchment patterns -- 5.3 Procedure -- 5.4 Results -- 5.4.1 Overview -- 5.4.2 Construction A -- 5.4.3 Construction B -- 5.4.4 Construction C.

5.5 Summary and discussion -- 6. Incipient productivity: From collocations to constructional schemas -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Prerequisites -- 6.2.1 Problems of semantic classification -- 6.2.2 Approaches to semantic classification -- 6.2.3 Approaches to productivity -- 6.3 Procedure -- 6.3.1 Identifying item-based generalisations -- 6.3.2 Identifying pockets of productive use -- 6.3.3 Identifying higher-level generalisations -- 6.4 Results -- 6.4.1 Item-based generalisations -- 6.4.2 Incipient productivity -- 6.4.3 Higher-order patterns -- 6.5 Summary and discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.