1. List of contributors; 2. Introduction (by Hasselgard, Hilde); 3. Sequence and order; 4. Sequence and order: The neo-Firthian tradition of corpus semantics (by Stubbs, Michael); 5. Mom and Dad but Men and Women: The sequencing of sex-determined noun pairs in American English (by Dant, Doris); 6. Sequences of size adjectives in text: Great big, tiny little, and less frequent combinations (by Coffey, Stephen); 7. Competing constructions; 8. The competition between the intensifiers dead and deadly: Some diachronic considerations (by Blanco-Suarez, Zeltia); 9. Has go-V ousted go-and-V?: A study of the diachronic development of both constructions in American English (by Bachmann, Ingo); 10. The construction cannot help -ing and its rivals in Modern English (by Rohdenburg, Gunter); 11. From reduction to emancipation: Is gonna a word? (by Lorenz, David); 12. Complex prepositions and variation within the PNP construction (by Smith, Adam); 13. Emerging patterns; 14. A finer definition of neology in English: The life-cycle of a word (by Renouf, Antoinette); 15. A corpus-based study of gender assignment in recent English loanwords in Norwegian (by Graedler, Anne-Line); 16. The return of the prefix? New verb-particle combinations in blogs (by Diemer, Stefan); 17. Correlating patterns and meaning; 18. Modality and the V wh pattern (by Vincent, Benet); 19. Assessing corpus search methods in onomasiological investigations: Exploring quantity approximation in business discourse (by Goossens, Diane); 20. Author index; 21. Subject index
