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Susan Hunston – Pattern, Construction, System: Reconciling approaches to lexis and grammar

Title: Pattern, Construction, System: Reconciling approaches to lexis and grammar Speaker: OBE Susan Hunston Abstract: This presentation describes the outcome of a project which aims to reconcile three different approaches to the lexis and grammar of English: Pattern Grammar (from the Cobuild corpus project); Construction Grammar (from Cognitive Linguistics); and Systemic Functional Grammar (from Systemic Functional Linguistics). In the project, 50 verb complementation patterns were reinterpreted as verb argument constructions, and system networks were produced to show how numerous constructions contribute to specific semantic fields. The presentation will give examples of this work and argue that it demonstrates the advantage of finding common ground between very different approaches to language. Short bio: Susan Hunston is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham. She has worked previously at the National University of Singapore, the University of Surrey, and the Cobuild project. This event took place online on Wednesday 29th October 2025, 14:00 (GMT)