From Words to Grammar. Discovering English Usage

Аннотация

This book is based on a growing belief among linguists that the grammar of English is much more closely connected to its lexis, or vocabulary, than originally thought. In other words, in addition to learning grammar top-down, i.e. learning the general rules of grammar and applying them to the lexical units systematically, we need to be aware of how individual words work and build up from there.