Studies in Role and Reference Grammar

Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) originated in the early 1970s as a theory of the grammar of natural languages which aims to describe and explain typological diversity through general principles of the mapping of discourse, semantics, and syntax. In RRG, these levels of analysis are understood as parallel dimensions of the language architecture and represented separately from each other. Work in RRG aims to be computationally implementable and compatible with the results of psycholinguistic research. Adopted and developed by theoretical and field linguists alike, the tenets of RRG are also often applied to diachrony, neurolinguistics, cognitive science, and Natural Language Processing. The STRRG series addresses theoretical problems and offers in-depth language descriptions or cross-linguistic studies adopting the RRG framework.