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1 - Word Grammar in Its Intellectual Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2024

By
Nikolas Gisborne  and
Stefan Müller
Edited by
Eva Duran Eppler ,
Nikolas Gisborne  and
Andrew Rosta
Eva Duran Eppler
Affiliation:
Roehampton University, London
Nikolas Gisborne
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Andrew Rosta
Affiliation:
University of Central Lancashire, Preston
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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.

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Word GrammarDependency GrammarCognitive Linguisticssymbolic networknetwork postulateparallel architectureattritbute–value matrixsmall worldscale freesocial meaningnativismInheritance (default and multiple)spreading activation
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Word Grammar, Cognition and Dependency , pp. 19 - 49
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Print publication year: 2025

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