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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2025

Susan Hunston
Susan Hunston
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Pattern, Construction, System
A Unified Approach to Grammar and Lexis
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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adjective patterns. See Pattern Grammar
Appraisal, 96, 102, 232, 235
Cardiff Grammar, The, 96–101, 102, 103
Change. See Semantic Fields
Charles, Maggie, 135
Chrispin, Lucy, 101
Cobuild, 1, 2–4, 11, 64, 94, 220, 222, 236
collexeme, 18
collostruction, 18, 225
Communication. See Semantic Fields
constructicon, 18, 20, 34, 57, 66, 105, 177, 224, 236
construction
definitions of constructions, 15–17
slots in constructions, 8, 17, 55, 57
Verb Argument Constructions, 4, 16, 34, 104, 105, 130, 223
Construction Grammar
and Pattern Grammar. See Pattern Grammar
constructions, specific
causative constructions, 107, 109
resultative constructions, 17, 108, 109
the ‘accident waiting to happen’ construction, 224
the ‘ditransitive’ construction, 16
the ‘into-causative’ construction, 18
the ‘just because … doesn’t mean … ’ construction, 16
the ‘let alone’ construction, 1, 16
the ‘nice of you’ construction, 16, 223
the ‘provide with’ construction, 21
the ‘to-dative’ construction, 18
the ‘what’s X doing Y’ construction, 16
the ‘accident waiting to happen’ construction, 23, 24
the directional oblique construction, 21
the ‘into-causative’ construction, 23, 222
the ‘let alone’ construction, 24
the ‘nice of you’ construction, 17, 21–22
the ‘to-dative’ construction, 21
the transitive construction, 222
corpora
Bank of English, 2, 10
British Academic Written Corpus, 10
British National Corpus, 10
enTenTen21, 10
Corpus Linguistics, 9, 23, 90, 96, 98, 102, 237
Corpus Pattern Analysis, 58, 59–62, 99, 100
Creation. See Semantic Fields
Diessel, Holger, 21, 224
Difference and similarity. See Semantic Fields:Equivalence
direct speech, 134, 135
Emotion. See Semantic Fields: Cognition
Engagement, 135
Equivalence. See Semantic Fields
experiential metafunction. See metafunctions
Fawcett, Robin, 96, 97
figurative meaning, 29, 39, 45, 47, 54, 55, 126
Fontaine, Lise, 101–102, 104
FrameNet, 18, 59, 65–68, 94
Frame Elements, 58, 66, 70
frames and constructions, 20, 66
frames. See FrameNet
Francis, Gill, 4, 10, 11, 14, 23, 25, 28, 34, 42, 59, 67, 99, 101, 103, 109, 223, 225, 236
Goldberg, Adele, 8, 15, 17, 21, 23, 224
grammatical metaphor, 80, 102, 110, 177, 219
Gries, Stefan, 17, 23, 222, 225, 236
Halliday, Michael, 8, 31, 32, 43, 54, 58, 73, 77, 82, 103, 121, 131, 137, 159, 178, 218–219, 228, 230, 232
Hanks, Patrick, 14, 59–61, 68, 100, 101
Hasan, Ruqaiya, 92–94, 129, 228, 232
Haspelmath, Martin, 16, 17, 55
Herbst, Thomas, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 57, 91, 224
Hunston, Susan, 10, 23, 25, 58, 225, 235
ideational metafunction. See metafunctions:experiential
identity. See Semantic Fields: Equivalence
indirect speech, 134
interpersonal metafunction. See metafunctions
Levin, Beth, 94–95, 99, 103
lexicogrammar, 85, 86, 91, 96, 102, 104, 221, 228, 232
lexicography, 2, 8, 11, 20, 23, 25, 222
Local Grammar, 57, 58, 59, 63–64
Location change. See Semantic Fields
Logical Relations. See Semantic Fields
Manning, Elizabeth, 10
Martin, James, 25, 85, 96, 97, 135, 232, 235
Matthiessen, Christian, 9, 32, 34, 58, 63, 73, 85, 88, 90, 91, 92, 132–133, 137, 178, 221, 225, 228, 230, 232
meaning groups. See Pattern Grammar
metafunctions
experiential, 62, 86, 87
interpersonal, 62
textual, 62, 86
movement. See Semantic Fields: Location Change
Narrative Report of Speech Act, 134, 135
Neale, Amy, 97, 98–99
networks
construction networks, 2, 43, 48, 49
meaning networks, 6, 96, 104, 106
systemic networks, 88, 89, 91, 92, 96, 99, 101, 104, 107
taxonomy networks, 25, 221
noun complementation patterns. See Pattern Grammar
participant roles in SFG. See Systemic Functional Grammar
Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs (PDEV), 59–61
pattern flow. See Pattern Grammar
Pattern Grammar
adjective patterns, 16, 25, 223
and Construction Grammar, 23–24, 25
and meaning groups, 13, 14, 23, 25, 34–36, 43, 103, 220, 224
noun complementation patterns, 224, 226
pattern flow, 225
types of pattern, 12
verb complementation patterns, 1, 11, 18
patterns, specific
ADJ for n, 25
ADJ that, 25
it v-link ADJ to-inf, 23
V, 15, 26
V after n, 5, 48
V into n, 27
V n, 15, 31, 32, 59, 109
V n adj, 34, 70
V n into -ing, 13, 23
V n n, 72
V n that, 49
V n to n, 42
V n with n, 52
V of n, 67
PDEV. See Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs
Perception. See Semantic Fields: Cognition
Perek, Florent, 16, 18–20, 66, 225
Possession transfer. See Semantic Fields
process types in SFG. See Systemic Functional Grammar
Semantic Fields, specific
Causation, 107–129
Change, 178–185
Cognition
Emotion, 138–145
Perception, 145–147
Thought, 147–159
Communication
Action, 161–165
Information, 165–177
Creation, 186–188
Equivalence, 198–213
Evaluation, 25, 235
Location change, 188–193
Logical relations, 213–218
Possession transfer, 194–198
semantic roles, 57, 66, 68, 84
semantic sequence, 225
Semino, Elena, 133–135, 137
Short, Mick, 133–135, 137
Sinclair, John, 8, 11, 63–64, 236
Sketch Engine, 10
speech and thought representation, 131
Stefanowitsch, Anatol, 17, 23, 222, 225
Su, Hang, 23, 25, 64, 232
Systemic Functional Grammar
and Corpus Linguistics, 90
introduction to SFG, 86–91
participant roles in SFG, 62–63
process types in SFG, 54, 62, 69, 77, 87, 91, 92, 94, 97, 99, 100
Systemic Functional Linguistics, 85, 96, 102, 232, 234
taxonomies. See networks: taxonomy networks
textual metafunction. See metafunctions
Thompson, Geoff, 86–87, 88, 131
Thought. See Semantic Fields: Cognition
Tucker, Gordon, 96–97
Unit of Meaning, 23
valency, 16, 20, 25, 57, 59, 66
verb complementation patterns. See Pattern Grammar
White, Peter, 25, 85, 96, 97, 135, 232

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