Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics Volume II: Case studies

FUNCTIONALISM AND FORMALISM IN LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I; Mapping So-called "Pragmatic" Phenomena According to a "Linguistic-Extralinguistic" Distinction; Lexis, Grammar, and Grammatical Change: The Koyukon classifier prefixes; The Limits of Formal Analysis: Pragmatic motivation in Oromo grammar; Form and Function in Syntax: Relative clauses in Tsez; Formalizing Functionally; Representing the Structure-Discourse Iconicity of the Japanese Post-Verbal Construction Between Irregular and Regular: "Imperfect generalizations" in Istanbul Turkish and the status of phonological rulesConstraints on Constraints, or the Limits of Functional Adaptation; Structure-preservation and Transitivity: The case of Chinese ba sentences; Topicality and Agreement; Explanatory Power of Functional and Formal Approaches to Language Change; Functional Optimality Theory: Evidence from split case systems; Welsh Soft Mutation and Marked Word Order; A Functional Journey with a Formal Ending: What do brow raises do in American Sign Language?; Part II. First Language Acquisition Formalism or Functionalism? Evidence from the study of language developmentFunctional Innateness: Explaining the critical period for language acquisition; The Holophrastic Hypothesis Revisited: Structural and functional approaches; Index of Authors; Index of Languages; Index of Subjects; the STUDIES IN LANGUAGE COMPANION SERIES