At 07:27 PM 12/7/2008, Craig Hancock wrote:
> > Bill,
>     I appreciate your attempt to douse the fire. The case for cognitive
>grammar is available to anyone interested, and I hope there are many
>on the list.
>    As you say, generative grammar was never intended to be a pedagogical
>grammar. Other grammars, if they prove to be more accurate descriptions
>of the language, may also have the benefit of giving us a case for
>placing grammar much closer to the center of the English curriculum.. . .

DD: I am sorry, but Ii am not an English grammarian. I am interested 
in what this list discusses, but way behind on commonly understood 
terms. Is there some source I could buy that explains the various 
terms re Generative, Cognitive, and the Others?

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