Acknowledgements

The research for this book was supported by the Leverhulme Trust, project number EM-2022-022.

I would like to thank the research assistants on the project, Caroline Ellis, Abbie Ip (Tsz Yuet Ip), and Kelly Su (Ze Su), for their invaluable help. I would also like to thank University of Birmingham website developers Cerys Lewis and Mohammad Afraz Ahmed.

I acknowledge the following sources of copyright material and am grateful for the permission granted. Figure 2.1 is reproduced from Perek and Patten (2019) ‘Towards an English constructicon using patterns and frames’ International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 24(3):354-384 (figure 3), by permission from the publisher. Figure 2.2 is reproduced from Diessel (2020) ‘A dynamic network approach to the study of syntax’ Frontiers in Psychology 11 (figure 28), by permission from the author. Table 3.3 is derived from information contained in Francis et al. (1996) Collins Cobuild Grammar Patterns 1: Verbs HarperCollins. Permission has been requested from the publisher. Figures 5.1 and 5.2 are reproduced from Thompson (2014) Introducing Functional Grammar Routledge, by permission from the publisher. Figure 5.3 is adapted from Halliday and Matthiessen (2014) Halliday’s Introduction to Functional Grammar Routledge, by permission from the publisher. Figure 5.4 is adapted from Neale (2002) ‘More delicate transitivity: extending the process type system for English to include full semantic classifications’ PhD thesis, Cardiff University, by permission from the author.

In addition, I acknowledge the following sources. Table 4.1 uses information on the website pdev.org.uk. Table 4.3 uses information on the website framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu.

Funding from the University of Birmingham made it possible for this book to be published open access, making the digital version freely available for anyone to read and reuse under a Creative Commons licence.