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

by Gill Francis and Susan Hunston

This book describes an approach to lexis and grammar based on the concept of phraseology and of language patterning arising from work on large corpora. The notion of 'pattern' as a systematic way of dealing with the interface between lexis and grammar was used in Collins Cobuild English Dictionary (1995) and in the two books in the Collins Cobuild Grammar Patterns series (1996; 1998). This volume describes the research that led to these publications,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556193998
• ISBN13: 9781556193996
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 302 Pages