On the Notion "Functional Explanation"

Dik, Simon C.

doi:10.1075/bjl.1.02dik

Article published In: Functional Explanations in Linguistics
Edited by Alain Bossuyt
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics 1] 1986
► pp. 11–52

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On the Notion "Functional Explanation"

Simon C. Dik | Universiteit van Amsterdam

Published online: 1 January 1986

https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.1.02dik

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