This anthology highlights possible systematic interconnections between the approaches of "construction grammar" and interaction-oriented studies on the grammar of spoken language. The empirical analyses focus on fixed constructions of varying complexity in German and English communicative situations.

Contributors Susanne Günthner, Wolfgang Imo, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Sandra A. Thompson, Clemens Knobloch, Johannes Schwitalla, Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Christine Gohl, Karin Birkner, Arnulf Deppermann, Peter Auer, Helmut Spiekermann, Benjamin Stoltenburg, Kerstin Fischer

Editors Susanne Günthner, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany; Wolfgang Imo, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.