Pattern Grammer: A Corpus-Driven Approach to the Lexical Grammer of English Book

	Acknowledgements
Ch. 1	A Short History of Patterns	1
1.1	About this book	1
1.2	Hornby: A Guide to Patterns and Usage in English	3
1.3	Lexical phrases	7
1.4	Sinclair: Corpus Concordance Collocation	14
1.5	Francis: A corpus-driven grammar	29
1.6	COBUILD: the grammar patterns series	32
Ch. 2	What a pattern is	37
2.1	A word and its patterns	37
2.2	A pattern and its words	43
2.3	The representation of patterns	44
2.4	What's in a pattern?	49
2.5	What kinds of pattern are there?	51
2.6	Looking at patterns from all sides	58
2.7	Different forms of a pattern	59
Ch. 3	Problems in identifying patterns	67
3.1	Which word does the pattern belong to?	68
3.2	When is a pattern not a pattern?	71
3.3	Do patterns over-generalise?	77
Ch. 4	Patterns and Meaning	83
4.1	Meaning groups: some examples	83
4.2	Creativity in pattern use	95
Ch. 5	More on pattern and meaning	109
5.1	From meaning to pattern: lexis and function	109
5.2	Mapping meaning on to pattern	123
5.3	Semantic word groups and their pattern distribution	142
	App. to Chapter 5	146
Ch. 6	Pattern and structure	151
6.1	Relating pattern to structure	151
6.2	Problems with prepositional phrases	160
6.3	Problems with phase	169
Ch. 7	Word class and pattern	179
7.1	The word class as pattern set	179
7.2	Some 'new' word classes	181
7.3	Some problematic word classes	192
7.4	Words without classes	195
7.5	Are word classes necessary?	197
Ch. 8	Text and Pattern	199
8.1	Patterns in running text	199
8.2	Pattern flow	207
8.3	Pattern configurations	215
8.4	Collocation and clause collocation	225
8.5	The theory of a linear grammar	235
Ch. 9	Summing Up	247
9.1	Patterns and phraseologies	247
9.2	Questions of theory	249
9.3	Questions of application to pedagogy	261
	References	275
	Appendix	283
	Name Index	285
	Subject Index	289