Includes bibliographical references (p. [887]-985) and indexes

Introduction / Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog -- The adaptive approach to grammar / T. Giv�n -- The cartography of syntactic structures / Guglielmo Cinque and Luigi Rizzi -- Categorial grammar / Glyn Morrill -- Cognitive grammar / Ronald W. Langacker -- Embodied construction grammar / Jerome Feldman, Ellen Dodge and John Bryant -- Sign-based construction grammar / Laura A. Michaelis -- Corpus-based and corpus-driven analyses of language variation and use / Douglas Biber -- Default semantics / Kasia M. Jaszczolt -- Dependency grammar and valency theory / Vilmos �gel and Klaus Fischer -- An emergentist approach to syntax / William O'Grady -- Formal generative typology / Mark C. Baker -- A frames approach to semantic analysis / Charles J. Fillmore and Collin Baker -- Framework-free grammatical theory / Martin Haspelmath -- Functional discourse grammar / Kees Hengeveld and J. Lchlan Mackenzie -- Grammaticalization and linguistic analysis / Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog -- Lexical-functional grammar / Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen -- The natural semantic metalanguage approach / Cliff Goddard -- Linguistic minimalis / Cedric Boeckx -- Morphological analysis / Geert E. Booij -- Optimality theory in phonology / Maria Gouskova -- Optimization principles in the typology of number and articles / Henri�tte de Swart and Joost Zwarts -- The parallel architecture and its place in cognitive science / Ray Jackendoff -- Neo-Gricean pragmatic theory of conversational implicature / Yan Huang -- Probabilistic linguistics / Rens Bod -- Linguistic relativity / Eric Pederson - Relevance theory / Francisco Yus -- Role and reference grammar as a framework for linguistic analysis / Robert D. Van Valin, Jr. -- The analysis of signed languages / Sherman Wilcox and Phyllis Perrin Wilcox -- Simpler syntax / Peter W. Culivocer -- Systemic functional grammar and the study of meaning / Allice Caffarel -- Usage-based theory / Joan L. Bybee and Clay Beckner -- Word grmmar / Richard Hudson