AN ECOLOGY OF GRAMMAR

AN ECOLOGY OF GRAMMAR

Author:  M. W. J. Garner

Abstract: 
The view argued in the paper comes down to language regarded as a patterned behavior, intentionally and unintentionally communicative, that needs an ecological analysis of the process by which behavior is patterned.

Keywords:  grammar, grammaticality, acceptability, external imposition, explicit version of controls, distributed cognition