Essential readings

Here we have collected some introductory texts and handbooks on Construction Grammar. We cannot provide an up-to-date bibliography here, but there are a few excellent bibliographies, e.g.

Handbooks, textbooks, and overview texts

Fried, Mirjam & Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.). 2025. The Cambridge handbook of construction grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hilpert, Martin. 2019. Construction grammar and its application to English. Second edition. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Hoffmann, Thomas & Graeme Trousdale (eds.). 2013. The Oxford Handbook of Construction Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hoffmann, Thomas. 2022. Construction grammar: The structure of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ungerer, Tobias & Stefan Hartmann. 2023. Constructionist approaches: Past, present, future. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009308717.