{"product_id":"semiotic-grammar","title":"Semiotic Grammar","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe label `semiotic grammar' captures a fundamental property of the grammars of human languages: not only is language a semiotic system in the familiar Saussurean sense, but its organizing system, its grammar, is also a semiotic system. This proposition, explicated in detail by William McGregor in this book, constitutes a new theory of grammar.   Semiotic Grammar is `functional' rather than `formal' in its intellectual origins,\n\u003cbr\u003eapproaches, and methods. It demonstrates, however, that neither a purely functional nor a purely formal account of language is adequate, given the centrality of the sign as the fundamental unit of grammatical\n\u003cbr\u003eanalysis. The author distinguishes four types of grammatical signs: experiential, logical, interpersonal, and textural. The signifiers of these signs are syntagmatic relationships of the following types, respectively: constituency, dependency, conjugational (scopal) and linking (indexical, connective).  McGregor illustrates and exemplifies the theory with data from a variety of languages including English, Acehnese, Polish, Finnish, Japanese, Chinese, and Mohawk; and from\n\u003cbr\u003ehis pioneering research on Gooniyandi and Nyulnyul, two languages of the Kimberleys region of Western Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156814033134,"sku":"9780198236887","price":262.73,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198236887.jpg?v=1706250042","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/semiotic-grammar","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}