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Acknowledgements Foreword Charles J. Fillmore 1. Regularity and idiomaticity in grammatical construction the case of let alone with Charles J. Fillmore and Mary Catherine O'Connor 2. Even 3. At least 4. Construction grammar 5. Linguistic competence and folk theories of language: two English hedges 6. The kind of/sort of construction 7. Contextual operators: respective, respectively, and vice versa 8. Constructional modus tollens and level of conventionality 9. Three properties of the ideal reader 10. The inheritance of presuppostions References.