Word Grammar, Cognition and Dependency

Eva M. Duran Eppler is a Reader in Linguistics at the University of Roehampton. She is chair of the Committee for Linguistics in Education. Notable publications include English Words and Sentences (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Nikolas Gisborne is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. Notable publications include The Event Structure of Perception Verbs (OUP, 2010) and Ten Lectures on Events in a Network Theory of Language (Brill, 2020). And Rosta is Senior Lecturer of English Linguistics at the University of Central Lancashire.

'This book, celebrating Dick Hudson's 80th birthday a few years ago, presents eleven interesting papers in Hudson's cognitively motivated Word Grammar framework. Several advantages of Hudson's simple framework are made clear by these interesting papers, including its cognitive basis and its ease of representing many complex phenomena across languages.' Edward Gibson, Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

• Introduction Nikolas Gisborne, Eva Duran Eppler and And Rosta; 1. Word Grammar in its intellectual contexts Nikolas Gisborne and Stefan Müller; 2. Raising in phonology And Rosta; 3. Grammar change in the network Nikolas Gisborne; 4. Word formation change in Word Grammar: two case studies Graeme Trousdale; 5. The metaphorical bases of constituency and dependency András Imrényi; 6. From social psychology to cognitive sociolinguistics: the self-serving bias and interplay with gender and modesty in language use Willem B. Hollmann; 7. Hudson on heads: about distributional criteria Sylvain Kahane; 8. Ordinary French Houses: Revisiting the Dependency vs. Phrase Structure Debate Timothy Osborne; 9. Dependency grammar and subordination Jackie Nordström; 10. Verb phrases as attributive nominal modifiers Bas Aarts; 11. Testing the predictions of word grammar, the minimalist programme and the matrix language frame model for German/English mixed determiner–noun constructions Eva Duran Eppler, Adrian Luescher and Margaret Deuchar; 12. Factors Influencing Dependency Distance: An Account of the MDD Variation between Chinese and English Ruochen Niu and Haitao Liu.