Review of "Diachronic Construction Grammar" (Barðdal, Smirnova, Sommerer & Gildea, 2015)

Diachronic studies in Construction Grammar have received increasing attention in the past decade. Notable larger publications include an edited volume (Bergs & Diewald, eds. 2008), a special issue of Cognitive Linguistics (Hoffmann & Trousdale, eds. 2011) and two book-length treatments (Hilpert 2013, Traugott & Trousdale 2013).

Now Diachronic Construction Grammar, edited by Barðdal, Smirnova, Sommerer and Gildea adds to this body of research and presents studies that address relevant issues in grammatical change from a constructional perspective.