Welcome to Word Grammar (WG). I assume you're studying linguistic
theory, so
you're already familiar with the main ideas of linguistics
and
your teachers favour some theory other than WG but
you're curious to know what alternative theories
are out there but
you're short of time and need a quick introduction
that you can relate to easily.
The ideas in WG are simple and (for some people) easy to relate to; if you
don't immediately like them, please reserve judgement - WG is based on three
decades of serious research so it's not just a pipe-dream. Like the other competing
theories in this area, it may be wrong, but it's not obviously wrong.
To enter this brief introduction to WG, choose one of the following:
If you want to read it online
and your browser can handle frames, click here.
(If you're not sure, try it.)
If you want to download the whole introduction (including graphics),
click here.
This will download a zip file called WG4PG.zip:
save it to your local hard drive;
use a program such as winzip to unzip it (in Windows XP, right-click WG4PG.zip, select winzip - not 'open with Winzip' - then choose a folder name and unpack all the files into that folder);
double-click frameset.htm.
If you want to send me a comment or a query, click here.