Table of content: Introduction · Cognate object constructions: past
and present · Basic tenets of cognitive linguistics · A cognitive
linguistic description of COCs: general issues · Consulting the
corpus: Towards a usage-based network of COCs · The transitivity of
COCs · ''Packaged'' events: Aspectual
characteristics of COCs · Mid-level schemas: determiners and
modifiers · COCs vs. AVCs - Putting alternations to the test ·
Don''t have a run, run a run! -light verb constructions and
COCs compared · Lower-level schemas: collocations, idioms, register
· I have a tale to tell: conclusion and outlook
