A Functionalist Approach to Grammar and Its Evolution

Bybee, Joan L.

doi:10.1075/eoc.2.2.06byb

Article published In: Evolution of Communication
Vol. 2:2 (1998) ► pp.249–278

Get fulltext from our e-platform

Download PDF

A Functionalist Approach to Grammar and Its Evolution

Joan L. Bybee | University of New Mexico

Published online: 17 July 2000

https://doi.org/10.1075/eoc.2.2.06byb

Cited by (32)

Cited by 32 other publications

Order by:

Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen & Richard Waltereit

2025. Cyclic Change in Grammar and Discourse,

Qin, Melissa Xiaohui & Xiaoyan Li

2025. An ecological approach to the lexical evolution of Chinese English. International Journal of Bilingualism 29:3 ► pp. 493 ff.

Walter, Daniel

2025. Functionalism and Connectionism as Foundational Theories for Usage-Based SLA: An Explanatory Model for L2 German Case Acquisition. Languages 10:12 ► pp. 291 ff.

Elvira, Javier

2022. Epifenomenología diacrónica. Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics 11:1 ► pp. 25 ff.

Bouveret, Myriam

2021. Lexicalization, grammaticalization and constructionalization of the verb give across languages. In Give Constructions across Languages [Constructional Approaches to Language, 29], ► pp. 1 ff.

Skarabela, Barbora, Mitsuhiko Ota, Rosie O'Connor & Inbal Arnon

2021. ‘Clap your hands’ or ‘take your hands’? One-year-olds distinguish between frequent and infrequent multiword phrases. Cognition 211 ► pp. 104612 ff.

ASHKENAZI, Orit, Steven GILLIS & Dorit RAVID

2020. Input–output relations in Hebrew verb acquisition at the morpho-lexical interface. Journal of Child Language 47:3 ► pp. 509 ff.

Blank, Idan A. & Evelina Fedorenko

2020. No evidence for differences among language regions in their temporal receptive windows. NeuroImage 219 ► pp. 116925 ff.

Fedorenko, Evelina, Idan Asher Blank, Matthew Siegelman & Zachary Mineroff

2020. Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network. Cognition 203 ► pp. 104348 ff.

Jacoby, Nir & Evelina Fedorenko

2020. Discourse-level comprehension engages medial frontal Theory of Mind brain regions even for expository texts. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 35:6 ► pp. 780 ff.

Ho-Fernández, Eduardo

2019. Aproximación al significado de la forma española QUE dentro de la Escuela de Columbia. In Columbia School Linguistics in the 21st Century [Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 77], ► pp. 161 ff.

Stern, Nancy

2019. Introduction. In Columbia School Linguistics in the 21st Century [Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 77], ► pp. 1 ff.

Smith, K. Aaron & Dawn Nordquist

2018. Introduction. In Functionalist and usage-based approaches to the study of language [Studies in Language Companion Series, 192], ► pp. xv ff.

Tantucci, Vittorio, Jonathan Culpeper & Matteo Di Cristofaro

2018. Dynamic resonance and social reciprocity in language change: the case of Good morrow. Language Sciences 68 ► pp. 6 ff.

최재혁

2018. A Complementary Relation between Historical Data and Theory in Phonology. Studies in English Language & Literature 44:4 ► pp. 175 ff.

Pelletier, Francis Jeffry

2017. Compositionality and Concepts—A Perspective from Formal Semantics and Philosophy of Language. In Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology [Language, Cognition, and Mind, 3], ► pp. 31 ff.

Schoenemann, P. Thomas

2017. A Complex-Adaptive-Systems Approach to the Evolution of Language and the Brain. In Complexity in Language, ► pp. 67 ff.

Blank, Idan, Zuzanna Balewski, Kyle Mahowald & Evelina Fedorenko

2016. Syntactic processing is distributed across the language system. NeuroImage 127 ► pp. 307 ff.

Fedorenko, Evelina & Rosemary Varley

2016. Language and thought are not the same thing: evidence from neuroimaging and neurological patients. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1369:1 ► pp. 132 ff.

De Sutter, Gert

2015. Review of Ebeling & Ebeling (2013): Patterns in Contrast. Languages in Contrast 15:2 ► pp. 297 ff.

Duffield, Cecily Jill & Lise Menn

2014. Simplicity and complexity in constructions. The Mental Lexicon 9:2 ► pp. 232 ff.

Laks, Bernard, Basilio Calderone & Chiara Celata

2014. French liaison and the lexical repository. In Advances in Sociophonetics [Studies in Language Variation, 15], ► pp. 31 ff.

O’Neill, Paul

2014. The morphome in constructive and abstractive models of morphology. Morphology 24:1 ► pp. 25 ff.

Schumann, John H.

2013. Societal Responses to Adult Difficulties in L2 Acquisition: Toward an Evolutionary Perspective on Language Acquisition. Language Learning 63:s1 ► pp. 190 ff.

Fedorenko, Evelina, Alfonso Nieto-Castañon & Nancy Kanwisher

2012. Lexical and syntactic representations in the brain: An fMRI investigation with multi-voxel pattern analyses. Neuropsychologia 50:4 ► pp. 499 ff.

Luka, Barbara J. & Heidi Choi

2012. Dynamic grammar in adults: Incidental learning of natural syntactic structures extends over 48 h. Journal of Memory and Language 66:2 ► pp. 345 ff.

Christiansen, Morten H., Florencia Reali & Nick Chater

2011. Biological Adaptations for Functional Features of Language in the Face of Cultural Evolution. Human Biology 83:2 ► pp. 247 ff.

Sato, Yosuke

2011. Umberto Ansaldo. 2009. Contact languages: Ecology and evolution in Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xvii + 257. US$99.00 (hardcover).. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 56:3 ► pp. 429 ff.

Clay Beckner, Richard Blythe, Joan Bybee, Morten H. Christiansen, William Croft, Nick C. Ellis, John Holland, Jinyun Ke, Diane Larsen‐Freeman & Tom Schoenemann

2009. Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper. Language Learning 59:s1 ► pp. 1 ff.

Chater, Nick, Florencia Reali & Morten H. Christiansen

2009. Restrictions on biological adaptation in language evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106:4 ► pp. 1015 ff.

Shinzato, Rumiko & Kyoko Masuda

2009. Morphophonological variability and form-function regularity: a usage-based approach to the Japanese modal adverb yahari/yappari/yappa. Language Sciences 31:6 ► pp. 813 ff.

Riches, N. G., B. Faragher & G. Conti‐Ramsden

2006. Verb schema use and input dependence in 5‐year‐old children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 41:2 ► pp. 117 ff.

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 8 december 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.