Participation Grammar is an emerging theory of language that I describe in a book manuscript currently in preparation for Language Science Press (series: Conceptual Foundations of Language Science).

From November 2024, draft chapters of the volume will gradually become available through the linked chapter titles below.

Comments on draft chapters are very welcome.

Cover: Grammatical Participation: A dialogue-first account of linguistic categories

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Grammar as de-personalisation

Chapter 3 Social grammar is not special

Chapter 4 Levels, nodes and circles

Chapter 5 An outline of Participation Grammar