In:Formal Approaches to Function in Grammar: In honor of Eloise Jelinek
Edited by Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley and MaryAnn Willie
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 62] 2003
► pp. vii–viii
Get fulltext
This article is available free of charge.
Published online: 20 March 2003
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.62.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.62.toc
Table of contents
Contributorsix
Acknowledgmentsxi
Introduction: Formalizing Functionalism
Part I: The Pronominal Argument Hypothesis9
On the significance of Eloise Jelinek’s Pronominal Argument Hypothesis
Categories and pronominal arguments
Doubling by Agreement in Slave (Northern Athapaskan)
Quasi objects in St’át’imcets: On the (semi-)independence of Agreement and Case
Agreement, dislocation, and partial configurationality
Part II: Interfaces133
Multiple multiple questions
Attitude evaluation in complex NPs
Topic-Focus articulation and degrees of salience in the Prague Dependency Treebank
Word order and discourse genre in Tohono O’odham
The prosody of interrogative and focus constructions in Navajo
Subject number agreement, grammaticalization, and transitivity in the Cupeño verb construction
Lexical irregularity in OT: DOT vs. Variable Constraint Ranking
Rapid perceptibility as a factor underlying universals of vowel inventories
Part III: Foundational issues263
Argument hierarchies and the mapping principle
Focus movement and the nature of uninterpretable features
Phonotactics and probabilistic ranking
Deconstructing functionalist explanations of linguistic universals
References
Name index
Subject index
