Word Grammar

Word grammar is a grammar model developed by Richard Hudson. It is based on Systemic Functional Grammar and also includes ideas from other grammatical models. Word grammar falls within the tradition of Cognitive Linguistics that models language as a general system of knowledge and not as a specific mental aptitude. In this respect it contrasts with Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar. Syntactically, it is a theory of grammatical dependencies, rather than sentence structures (or immediate constituents in the style of Leonard Bloomfield), rejecting theories such as the X-slash.