last updated 27 October 2004
This paper is based on a paper originally written in 1998 for publication in Dependency and Valency. An International Handbook of Contemporary Research (edited by Vilmos Ágel; Ludwig M. Eichinger; Hans-Werner Eroms; Peter Hellwig; Hans Jürgen Heringer; and Henning Lobin) Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. It is unclear whether this handbook will ever appear.
The present version was published in: Kensei Sugayama (ed) 2002. Studies in Word Grammar (Kobe: Research Institute of Foreign Studies, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) pp 7-32.
The paper summarises the WG theory of language structure under the following headings: 1 A brief overview of the theory 2 Historical background 3 The cognitive network 3.1 Language as part of a general network 3.2 Labelled links 3.3 Modularity 4 Default inheritance 5 The language network 6 The utterance network 7 Morphology 8 Syntax 9 Semantics 10 Processing