2017 Volume 2017 Issue 264 Pages 1-24
This paper explores Stylistic-Register Grammar (Yuti Grammar) from various components of the grammar such as morphology, syntax, phonology and semantics. It was discovered that stylistic-register differences are manifested systematically not only through morphological contrasts such as bound/free (morphemes), ancient/modern (words), coordination/subordination (compounds), analyticity/syntheticity (syntactic words), but also in syntactic contrasts such as high/low (tree structural positions), far/near (movements), in prosodic feature contrasts such as high/low (tones), weak/strong (syllables), monosyllabic/disyllabic (words), and in semantic contrasts such as concrete/abstract (meaning), big/small (sizes), individual/collective, and so on. It is then argued that Register Grammar occurs in all components of the grammar, not merely exists in syntax as previously assumed. Thus, Stylistic-register Grammar is better considered as an independent component in the grammatical system of human languages.
