Grammar and Meaning

Copyright 1990 Longman Group UK; FIRST PUBLISHED 1990; ISBN 0-582-02875-2 paperback; LC 90-6016. In the Learning about Language series. It inverts the usual order — starting from states, events and actions, and from participant roles, then asking what grammar does with them — which makes it the most teachable book on the shelf for anyone describing a language from meaning outwards rather than from form.