Hilpert's book delivers on its promise to be an introduction to CxG and its application to various linguistic subdisciplines... At the end of each chapter there are a number of study questions, suggestions for further reading, and exercises. In addition, a series of video lectures accompanies the book. An accessible textbook with a few more technical chapters, such as the one of information packaging, it will make a great introductory text for undergraduate students interested in Construction Grammar and its application to English.--Lieselotte brems, University of Liege An accessible introduction to the principles of CxG. --The Year's Work in English Studies Biografía del autor Martin Hilpert works as Assistant Professor of English Linguistics at the Universit de Neuch tel. Besides Construction Grammar, his research interests include corpus linguistics, language variation and change, and cognitive linguistics.