Conventional grammars tell us when we can use given grammatical patterns. However, they almost invariably fail to tell us when we cannot use them. Many of the chapters of this book are concerned with the latter problem. They attempt to explain why some sentences that should be grammatical according to the explanations given in conventional grammars are in fact ungrammatical. In this sense, the book can be called a grammar of ungrammatical sentences.... It deals only with those problems of Japanese -- and only a handful of them -- that are either completely ignored or erroneously...
Conventional grammars tell us when we can use given grammatical patterns. However, they almost invariably fail to tell us when we cannot use th...
