This paper develops an approach to pedagogical grammar based on the notion of grammatical concepts. Grammatical concepts are based on the sort of properties that are used to explain grammatical patterns and the acquisition of grammar in formal linguistics. It is proposed that these properties can be exploited for language pedagogy as they provide teachers with a deeper understanding of issues of learnability with respect to grammar. The concepts are illustrated on the basis of the pronoun system of English, demonstrating how a range of different underlying grammatical concepts can coincide to regulate syntactic and semantic patterns in a particular morphosyntactic paradigm.
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Rankin, T., & Whong, M. (2020). Grammatical Concepts for Pedagogical Grammar. In Educational Linguistics (Vol. 43, pp. 21–41). Springer Science+Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39257-4_3
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