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1 - Word Grammar in Its Intellectual Contexts
- By Nikolas Gisborne, Stefan Müller
Edited by Eva Duran Eppler, Roehampton University, London, Nikolas Gisborne, University of Edinburgh, Andrew Rosta, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Book:

Word Grammar, Cognition and Dependency

Published online:

19 December 2024

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02 January 2025, pp 19-49
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Summary

Word Grammar is a linguistic theory which best known as a variant of Dependency Grammar. However, it has a number of other properties, and its architectural assumptions are consistent with its theory of how human cognition works and its theory of how representations work. In this chapter we relate Word Grammar (WG) to a number of different trends in linguistic theorising and explain the various traditions that the theory belongs to. Word Grammar belongs in three main theoretical traditions: Dependency Grammars, Constraint-based Grammars and Cognitive Linguistics. We show how WG relates to these approaches and explore how the network model of linguistic representation adopted by WG relates to each tradition. The key claim of WG is that language is represented in a symbolic network, which is part of a more general human cognitive network and which is in a relationship with a discreet neural network.