- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures and tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Conceptualizations of Grammar in the History of English Grammaticology
- Syntactic Argumentation
- Grammar and the Use of Data
- Grammar and Corpus Methodology
- Cognitive Linguistic Approaches
- Constructional Approaches
- Dependency and Valency Approaches
- Generative Approaches
- Functional Approaches
- Modern and Traditional Descriptive Approaches
- Theoretical Approaches to Morphology
- Inflection and Derivation
- Compounds
- Word Classes
- Phrase Structure
- Noun Phrases
- Clause Structure, Complements, and Adjuncts
- Clause Types and Speech Act Functions
- Tense and Aspect
- Mood and Modality
- Subordination and Coordination
- Information Structure
- Grammar and Lexis
- Grammar and Phonology
- Grammar and Meaning
- Grammar and Discourse
- Change in Grammar
- Regional Varieties of English: Non-standard grammatical features
- Global Variation in the Anglophone World
- Genre Variation
- Literary Variation
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
Abstract and Keywords
In the majority of theoretical linguistic frameworks, grammar and phonology are typically kept ‘separate’, which arguably leads to a somewhat reduced understanding of how language works. In this chapter, we explore some of the historical reasons for this separation, framing the discussion around degrees of linguistic modularity and autonomy which different grammatical frameworks assume. After providing an overview of this debate, we then illustrate how phonology interacts with grammar. We discuss how grammar and phonology interact at word and sentence level, present a case study for the role that phonology plays in word class categorization, and finally, examine how two different grammatical paradigms (namely formal-generative and cognitive-functional grammar) incorporate phonology into their descriptions.
Keywords: phonology, modularity, autonomy, morpho-phonology, syntax-phonology interface, cognitive grammar, generative grammar
Sam Hellmuth is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. Sam earned her MA and PhD at SOAS University of London, and specializes in the study of prosody (stress, rhythm, and intonation), and the modelling of variation in prosody within and between speakers, dialects, languages, and contexts, in a laboratory phonology approach (using quantitative and qualitative methods, on both naturally occurring and experimental data).
Ian Cushing is a lecturer in the Department of Education at Brunel University London. He has a broad range of teaching and research interests, including applied cognitive linguistics (especially in educational contexts), critical language policy, and pedagogical grammar. He is the author of Text Analysis and Representation (2018, CUP), Language Change (2019, CUP), and a co-author of How to Teach Grammar (2019, OUP, with B. Aarts and R. Hudson), as well as various journal articles and book chapters.
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- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures and tables
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- Conceptualizations of Grammar in the History of English Grammaticology
- Syntactic Argumentation
- Grammar and the Use of Data
- Grammar and Corpus Methodology
- Cognitive Linguistic Approaches
- Constructional Approaches
- Dependency and Valency Approaches
- Generative Approaches
- Functional Approaches
- Modern and Traditional Descriptive Approaches
- Theoretical Approaches to Morphology
- Inflection and Derivation
- Compounds
- Word Classes
- Phrase Structure
- Noun Phrases
- Clause Structure, Complements, and Adjuncts
- Clause Types and Speech Act Functions
- Tense and Aspect
- Mood and Modality
- Subordination and Coordination
- Information Structure
- Grammar and Lexis
- Grammar and Phonology
- Grammar and Meaning
- Grammar and Discourse
- Change in Grammar
- Regional Varieties of English: Non-standard grammatical features
- Global Variation in the Anglophone World
- Genre Variation
- Literary Variation
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
