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Emergent grammar
A view of grammar associated with Paul Hopper which adopts the usage-based thesis.
According to Hopper, the grammar of a language is not most insightfully conceived as a fixed or stable system that precedes discourse. Rather, he argues that the constructions which make up the grammar are in a continual state of modification, emerging from and being shaped by ongoing discourse as much as they shape discourse.
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