• Frederick Newmeyer. 2003. Grammar is Grammar and Usage is Usage. Language 79: 682-707.
• Gahl, Susanne & Susan Garnsey (2004. Knowledge of Grammar, Knowledge of Usage: Syntactic Probabilities Affect Pronunciation Variation. Language 80: 748-775.
• Frederick Newmeyer. 2006. On Gahl and Garnsey on Grammar and Usage. Language 82: 399-404.

Supplementary Readings:

• Susanne Gahl and Susan Garnsey. 2006. Knowledge of Grammar Includes Knowledge of Syntactic Probabilities. Language 82: 405-410.
• Various other brief responses to Newmeyer, and his rebuttal in Language 81.1:
  • Clark
  Laury and Ono
  • Meyer and Tao
  • Newmeyer's Response

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