WORD GRAMMAR: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON A THEORY OF LANGUAGE STRUCTURE; ED. BY KENSEI SUGAYAMA

In a world of changing work patterns and the global displacement of working lifestyles, the nature of human identity and work is put under great strain. Modern conceptions of work have been restricted to issues of utility and necessity, where aims and purposes of work are reducible to the satisfaction of immediate technical and economic needs. Left unaddressed is the larger narrative context in which humans naturally seek to understand a human contribution to and responsibility for themselves, others and being as a whole. What role does human work play in the development of the world itself? Is it merely a functional activity or does it have a metaphysical and ontological calling? Heidegger, Work, and Being elucidates Heidegger;s philosophy of work, providing a novel interpretation of the Aristotelian understanding of work in relation to Heidegger's ontology and notion of thanking. Todd S. Mei employs Heidegger;s hermeneutical approach to a critique and reconstruction of an understanding of work to show that work, at its core, is an activity centred on thanking and mutual recognition. 0826486452......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Contributors......Page 12 Preface......Page 14 Introduction......Page 20 1. A Brief Overview of the Theory......Page 22 2. Historical Background......Page 24 3. The Cognitive Network......Page 26 4. Default Inheritance......Page 31 5. The Language Network......Page 32 6. The Utterance Network......Page 34 7. Morphology......Page 37 8. Syntax......Page 40 9. Semantics......Page 43 10. Processing......Page 46 11. Conclusions......Page 47 Part I: Word Grammar Approaches to Linguistic Analysis: Its explanatory power and applications......Page 52 2. The Data......Page 54 3. The Analysis of Case Agreement......Page 60 4. Non-Existent Entities in Cognition and in Language......Page 61 5. Extensions to Other Parts of Grammar......Page 65 6. Comparison with PRO and pro......Page 68 7. Comparison with Other PRO-free Analyses......Page 69 8. Conclusions......Page 71 1. Introduction......Page 73 2. Word Grammar......Page 75 3. Eat in English......Page 77 4. Taberu in Japanese......Page 79 5. Conclusion......Page 82 1. Introduction and the Problem......Page 86 2. Category of Be......Page 87 3. Modal Be in Word Grammar......Page 88 4. Morphological Aspects......Page 89 5. Syntactic Aspects......Page 90 6. Semantics of the Be To Construction......Page 91 7. Should To be Counted as Part of the Lexical Item?......Page 94 8. A Word Grammar Analysis of the Be To Construction......Page 96 9. Conclusion......Page 100 1. Linking in Word Grammar: The syntax semantics principle......Page 102 2. The Event Type Hierarchy: The framework; event types; roles and relations......Page 122 3. Conclusion......Page 133 1. Introduction......Page 136 2. Constituent Structure Grammar Approaches to Intra-Sentential Code-Mixing......Page 137 3. A Word Grammar Approach to Code-Mixing......Page 140 4. Word Order in Mixed and Monolingual 'Subordinate' Clauses......Page 147 5. Summary and Conclusion......Page 158 1. Introduction......Page 164 2. A Word Grammar Approach......Page 165 3. An Approach in Constructional HPSG: Ginzburg and Sag 2000......Page 173 4. A Linearization HPSG Approach......Page 179 5. Concluding Remarks......Page 184 Part II: Towards a Better Word Grammar......Page 188 1. Introduction......Page 190 3. Distributional Heads......Page 191 5. Extent Operators......Page 193 6. Surrogates versus Proxies......Page 196 7. Focusing Subjuncts: just, only, even......Page 198 9. Degree Words......Page 200 11. Determiner Phrases......Page 201 12. The type of Construction......Page 203 13. Inside-out Interrogatives......Page 204 14. 'Empty Categories'......Page 206 15. Coordination......Page 208 17. Dependency Types......Page 210 18. Conclusion......Page 218 1. Introduction......Page 223 2. Dimensions of Subjecthood......Page 224 3. The Locative Inversion Data......Page 229 4. Factored Out Subjects......Page 235 5. Conclusions......Page 241 Conclusion......Page 244 L......Page 246 W......Page 247 D......Page 248 L......Page 249 S......Page 250 W......Page 251
This book is an introduction to Word Grammar, a theory of language structure founded and developed by Dick Hudson. In this theory, language is a cognitive network  - a network of concepts, words and meanings containing all the elements of a linguistic analysis. The theory of language is therefore embedded in a theory of knowledge, in which there are no boundaries between one form of knowledge and any other. The most controversial idea in Word Grammar syntax is that phrase structure is redundant, because all its work can be done by means of dependencies between individual words. Word-word dependency is therefore a key concept in Word Grammar, and the syntax and semantics of a sentence is built upon this foundation.

Contributors to this volume are primarily Word Grammar grammarians from across the world. All the chapters here manifest theoretical potentialities of Word Grammar, exploring how powerful Word Grammar is to offer analysis for linguistic phenomena in various languages. The chapters come from varying perspectives and include work on a number of languages, including English, German, Japanese, Swahili, Turkish and Ancient Greek. Phenomena studied include verbal inflection, case agreement, extraction, construction and code-mixing. This collection will be of interest to academics encountering Word Grammar for the first time, or for those who are already familiar with this theory and are interested in reading how it has evolved and what its future may hold.

"This book is an introduction to Word Grammar, a theory of language structure founded and developed by Richard Hudson. In this theory, language is a cognitive network - a network of concepts, words and meanings containing all the elements of a linguistic analysis. The theory of language is therefore embedded in a theory of knowledge, in which there are no boundaries between one form of knowledge and any other."--Jacket