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Contents

1. Introduction

2. The notion of construction outside the construction grammar framework

2.1 Constructions and (American) Structuralism

2.2 Constructions and Generative Grammar

2.3. Constructions and corpus linguistics

2.4 The actual form of constructions

2.5 Summary

3. The concept of construction within Construction Grammar(s)

3.1 Fillmore’s notion of construction

3.2 Langacker’s notion of construction

3.3 Goldberg’s notion of construction

3.4 Croft’s notion of construction

3.5 Conclusion

3.6 Constructions in this journal

Acknowledgements

References