This work offers a fresh approach to grammar, arguing that a speaker "codes" a meaning into grammatical forms in order to communicate them to a hearer. Investig

This book shows how grammar helps people communicate and looks at the ways grammar and meaning interrelate. The author starts from the notion that a speaker cod

Syntax puts our meaning (“semantics”) into sentences, and phonology puts the sentences into the sounds that we hear and there must, surely, be a structure i

Introducing English Grammar introduces readers to the methodology and terminology needed to analyse English sentences. The approach taken is in line with curren

Many works on linguistic typology deal in some detail with one or more particular grammatical topics without clearly demonstrating how these relate to other cat