Download or read book Structuring Sense: Volume 1: In Name Only written by Hagit Borer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Structuring Sense' explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from lexical entry to syntactic structure, from memory of words to manipulation of rules.