Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of tables and figures VII
4. List of contributors IX
5. Patterns in linguistics: This volume, its aims and its contributions 1
6. From term to concept and vice versa: Pattern(s) in language and linguistics 11
7. How to do things with intertextual patterns: On Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose 47
8. Word-entry patterns in Early Modern English dictionaries 69
9. Collocations and colligations: Visualizing lexicogrammar 97
10. Constructional pattern-development in language change 125
11. How constructions are born. The role of patterns in the constructionalization of be going to INF 157
12. Constructions are patterns and so are fixed expressions 193
13. A dynamic equational approach to sound patterns in language change and secondlanguage acquisition: The (un)stability of English dental fricatives illustrated 221
14. Learning by predicting: How predictive processing informs language development 255
15. Index 289