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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2025

Susan Hunston
Susan Hunston
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University of Birmingham

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Pattern, Construction, System
A Unified Approach to Grammar and Lexis
 , pp. ix - x
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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  1. 1.1The research journey from pattern to construction to system

  2. 1.2A simplified meaning network for ‘expressing emotion towards something’

  3. 1.3A simplified systemic network for ‘expressing emotion towards something’

  4. 2.1The Communication network of frames in the ‘V that’ pattern (reproduced from Perek and Patten 2019:372)

  5. 2.2Verb argument construction families (from Diessel 2020: 11)

  6. 2.3Adjective argument constructions (re-imagined from Goldberg and Herbst 2021)

  7. 3.1A network for the constructions derived from the pattern V n adj

  8. 3.2Further degrees of delicacy in the network for the constructions derived from V n adj

  9. 3.3Communication, Cognition, and Relation process-based constructions from the pattern V n to n

  10. 3.4Action process-based constructions from the pattern V n to n

  11. 3.5Alternative networks for constructions derived from V after n

  12. 3.6The network of constructions from the pattern V n that

  13. 3.7The network of constructions from the pattern V n with n

  14. 5.1Analysis of a clause showing three metafunctions (from Thompson 2014: 34)

  15. 5.2Mood choices in English (adapted from Thompson 2014: 41)

  16. 5.3A simplified network for mental processes (adapted from Halliday and Matthiessen 2014: 258)

  17. 5.4Progression in delicacy from ‘Action: Affected participant’ to ‘overturning’. (Based on Neale 2002)

  18. 6.1The imaginary Birmingham to London journey: taxonomy of options

  19. 6.2Systemic Network of travel options

  20. 6.3Causation Meaning Network

  21. 6.4Cause thought/emotion Meaning Network: initial version

  22. 6.5Cause action/event Meaning Network

  23. 6.6Cause state Meaning Network

  24. 6.7Causation Systemic Network

  25. 6.8Superordinate Causation Network

  26. 7.1Cognition Emotion Systemic Network

  27. 7.2Cognition Emotion Meaning Network

  28. 7.3Cognition Perception Systemic Network

  29. 7.4Cognition Perception Meaning Network

  30. 7.5Cognition Thought Systemic Network

  31. 7.6Cognition Thought Meaning Network

  32. 7.7Communication Systemic Network

  33. 7.8Communication Meaning Network

  34. 7.9Communication: Action Systemic Network

  35. 7.10Communication: Action Meaning Network

  36. 7.11Communication: Information Systemic Network

  37. 7.12Communication: Information Meaning Network

  38. 8.1Change Systemic Network

  39. 8.2Change Meaning Network

  40. 8.3Creation Systemic Network

  41. 8.4Creation Meaning Network

  42. 8.5Location change Systemic Network

  43. 8.6Location change Meaning Network

  44. 8.7Possession transfer Systemic Network

  45. 8.8Possession transfer Meaning Network

  46. 8.9Equivalence Systemic Network: meaning choices

  47. 8.10Equivalence Meaning Network

  48. 8.11Logical Relations Systemic Network

  49. 8.12Logical Relations Meaning Network

  50. 9.1The stages of the study

  51. 9.2Creative process constructions: Meaning Network

  52. 9.3Creative process: Systemic Network

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