Dear all,

You are invited to join us at the University of Birmingham for the 2023 Annual Sinclair Lecture!

This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Susan Hunston OBE

Date: Mo 11th September 2023, 6pm Title: “From Pattern to System: an exploration in lexical grammar”

Abstract: The approaches to lexis and grammar pioneered by Michael Halliday and by John Sinclair can be seen as conflicting or as complementary. For the most part they have developed independently of each other. This lecture reports on a project to bring the two approaches together and to populate systemic networks with constructions derived from pattern grammar. It will show that the concept of system is invaluable in demonstrating a hierarchy of constructions derived from patterns, and then in explicating choices available to speakers in specific areas of meaning. The paper will also consider the possible practical applications of this work.

We are back to an in-person event this year – so you are invited to raise a glass with us after the lecture!

The event is free, but please register here:

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/event...

We are very much looking forward to seeing many old and new corpus linguistic friends! Michaela

--------------- Professor Michaela Mahlberg Director of the Centre for Corpus Research University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

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