Despite its importance for language and cognition, the theoretical concept of »pattern« has received little attention in linguistics so far. The articles in this volume demonstrate the multifariousness of linguistic patterns in lexicology, corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics, text linguistics, pragmatics, construction grammar, phonology and language acquisition and develop new perspectives on »pattern« as a linguistic concept.

• Contents
• List of tables and figures
• List of contributors
• Patterns in linguistics: This volume, its aims and its contributions
• From term to concept and vice versa: Pattern(s) in language and linguistics
• How to do things with intertextual patterns: On Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose
• Word-entry patterns in Early Modern English dictionaries
• Collocations and colligations: Visualizing lexicogrammar
• Constructional pattern-development in language change
• How constructions are born. The role of patterns in the constructionalization of be going to INF
• Constructions are patterns and so are fixed expressions
• A dynamic equational approach to sound patterns in language change and secondlanguage acquisition: The (un)stability of English dental fricatives illustrated
• Learning by predicting: How predictive processing informs language development
• Index