[...]... late 1970s when Transformational Grammar was immensely influential, Richard Hudson abandoned Daughter-Dependency Grammar (in spite of its drawing a rave review by Paul Schachter in Language 54, 348-76) His exploration of various general ideas that hadn't come together became an alternative coherent theory called Word Grammar, first described in the 1984 book Word Grammar and subsequently improved and... have provided a way of unifying them in preparation for the explanation In short, a network with classified relations allows an injury to apply to specific relation types so that these relations are disabled across the board The 12 WORD GRAMMAR: PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE STRUCTURE approach also allows damage to specific areas of language which form clusters with strong internal links and weak external... of Arguments for a Non-Transformational Grammar' Language, 17, 348-76 Sugayama, K (ed ) (2003), Studies in Word Grammar Kobe: Research Institute of Foreign Studies, KCUFS Tesniere, Lucien (1959), Elements de Syntaxe Structurale Paris: Klincksieck Introduction This page intentionally left blank 1 What is Word Grammar? RICHARD HUDSON Abstract The chapter summarizes the Word Grammar (WG) theory of language. .. stratificational grammar was important was that it aimed to be a model of human language processing - a cognitive model The 1970s Seeing the attractions of both valency theory and Chomsky's subcategorization, I produced a hybrid theory which was basically Systemic Grammar, but with the addition of word- word dependencies under the influence of Anderson (1971); the theory was called 'Daughter-Dependency Grammar' ... was about Daughter-Dependency Grammar (Arguments for a Non-transformational Grammar, University of Chicago Press, 1976) As the latter tide indicates, Chomsky's transformational grammar was very much 'in the air', and both books accepted his goal of generative grammar but offered other ideas about sentence structure as alternatives to his mixture of function-free phrase structure plus transformations... between words and other kinds WHAT IS WORD GRAMMAR? 15 Figure 6 of communicative behaviour by virtue of an isa link from 'word' to 'communication', and similar links show that words are actions and events This is important in the analysis of deictic meanings which have to relate to the participants and circumstances of the word as an action This hierarchy of words is not the only isa hierarchy in language. .. for assisting with preparation of this volume in her normal professional manner We alone accept responsibility for all errors in the presentation of data and analyses in this volume Kensei Sugayama References Hudson, R A (1971), English Complex Sentences: An Introduction to Systemic Grammar Amsterdam: North Holland — (1976), Arguments for a Non-transformational Grammar Chicago: University of Chicago... words and other kinds of concept, but this does not mean that language is a module in the stronger sense of being 'encapsulated' or having its own special formal characteristics This is still a matter of debate, but we can be sure that at least some of the characteristics of language are also found elsewhere - the mechanism of default inheritance and the isa relation, the notion of linear order, and many... — (1984), Word Grammar Oxford: Blackwell — (1990), English Word Grammar Oxford: Blackwell — (2004, July 1-last update), 'Word Grammar' , (Word Grammar) , Available: www phon ucl ac uk/home/dick/wg htm (Accessed: 18 April 2005) — (in preparation), Advances in Word Grammar Oxford: Oxford University Press Pollard, C and Sag, LA (1987), Information-Based Syntax and Semantics Stanford: CSLI Schachter, P (1978),... language area of this network from the rest is that the concepts concerned are words and their immediate characteristics This is simply a matter of definition: concepts which are not directly related to words would not be considered to be part of language As explained in section 3 3, language probably qualifies as a module in the weak sense that the links among words are denser than those between words . class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" Word Grammar New Perspectives on a Theory of Language Structure This page intentionally left blank Word Grammar New Perspectives on a Theory of Language. Grammar Surface Structures and HPSG Order Domains Takafumi Maekawa 1. Introduction 2. A Word Grammar Approach 3. An Approach in Constructional HPSG: Ginzburg and Sag 2000 4. A . C. and Sag, LA. (1987), Information-Based Syntax and Semantics. Stanford: CSLI. Schachter, P. (1978), 'Review of Arguments for a Non-Transformational Grammar& apos;. Language,