Holger Diessel is Professor of English Linguistics at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany. His publications include two monographs, Demonstrastives: Form, Function and Grammaticalization (1999) and The Acquisition of Complex Sentences (Cambridge, 2004), and more than fifty articles in journals and edited volumes.
1. Introduction
Part I. Foundations: 2. Grammar as a network
3. Cognitive processes and language use
Part II. Signs as Networks: 4. The taxonomic network
5. Sequential relations
6. Symbolic relations
Part III. Filler-Slot Relations: 7. Argument structure and linguistic productivity
8. A dynamic network model of parts of speech
9. Phrase structure
Part IV. Constructional Relations: 10. Construction families
11. Encoding asymmetries of grammatical categories
12. Conclusion.
