ABSTRACT
The chapter provides an overview of grammar as it is linked to meaning. We begin with the notion of the word and introduce meaning from the point of view of denotation, connotation, and word formation (prefixes, suffixes, portmanteaux/blending), then move to combinations of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences, as well as deletions of words through ellipsis. Discourse is crucial to grammar (and vice versa), as evidenced in genre and register. We link discourse and grammar to pragmatics as well as the notion of markedness.
