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Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics
Volume II: Case studies
The 23rd UWM Linguistics Symposium (1996) brought together linguists of opposing theoretical approaches — functionalists and formalists — in order to determine to what extent these approaches really differ from each other and to what extent the approaches complement each other. The two volumes of Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics contain a careful selection of the papers originally presented at the symposium.
Volume I includes papers discussing the two basic approaches to linguistics; with contributions by: Werner Abraham, Stephen R. Anderson, Joan L. Bybee, William Croft, Alice Davidson, Mark Durie, Ken Hale, Michael Hammond, Bruce P. Hayes, Nina Hyams, Howard Lasnik, Brian MacWhinney, Geoffrey S. Nathan, Daniell Nettle, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Edith A. Moravcsik, Doris Payne, Janet Pierrehumbert, Kathleen M. Wheatley.
Volume II consists of case studies which draw upon the strengths of both approaches and thus help to bridge the gap between the two camps; with contributions by: Mira Ariel, Melissa Axelrod, Robbin Clamons, Bernard Comrie, Kees Hengeveld, Erika Hoff-Ginsberg, James Hurford, Lizanne Kaiser, Nicholas Kibre, Simon Kirby, Feng-hsi Liu, André Meinunger , Viola Miglio, Ann Mulkern, Waturu Nakamura, Maria Polinsky, Elizabeth Purnell, Gerald Sanders, Nancy Stenson, Maggie Tallerman, Ronnie Wilbur.
Volume I includes papers discussing the two basic approaches to linguistics; with contributions by: Werner Abraham, Stephen R. Anderson, Joan L. Bybee, William Croft, Alice Davidson, Mark Durie, Ken Hale, Michael Hammond, Bruce P. Hayes, Nina Hyams, Howard Lasnik, Brian MacWhinney, Geoffrey S. Nathan, Daniell Nettle, Frederick J. Newmeyer, Edith A. Moravcsik, Doris Payne, Janet Pierrehumbert, Kathleen M. Wheatley.
Volume II consists of case studies which draw upon the strengths of both approaches and thus help to bridge the gap between the two camps; with contributions by: Mira Ariel, Melissa Axelrod, Robbin Clamons, Bernard Comrie, Kees Hengeveld, Erika Hoff-Ginsberg, James Hurford, Lizanne Kaiser, Nicholas Kibre, Simon Kirby, Feng-hsi Liu, André Meinunger , Viola Miglio, Ann Mulkern, Waturu Nakamura, Maria Polinsky, Elizabeth Purnell, Gerald Sanders, Nancy Stenson, Maggie Tallerman, Ronnie Wilbur.
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 42] 1999. vi, 407 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 October 2008
Published online on 21 October 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Syntax, Morphology, and Morphological AlternationEdith A. Moravcsik and Kathleen Wheatley | p. 1
- Part I: Syntax, Morphology, and Morphological Alternation
- Mapping So-called “Pragmatic” Phenomena According to a “Linguistic-Extralinguistic” Distinction: The case of propositions marked “accessible”Mira Ariel | p. 11
- Lexis, Grammar, and Grammatical Change: The Koyukon classifier prefixesMelissa Axelrod | p. 39
- The Limits of Formal Analysis: Pragmatic motivation in Oromo grammarRobbin Clamons, Ann E. Mulkern, Gerald A. Sanders and Nancy J. Stenson | p. 59
- Form and Function in Syntax: Relative clauses in TsezBernard Comrie and Maria Polinsky | p. 77
- Formalizing FunctionallyKees Hengeveld | p. 93
- Representing the Structure-Discourse Iconicity of the Japanese Post-Verbal ConstructionLizanne Kaiser | p. 107
- Between Irregular and Regular: “Imperfect generalizations” in Istanbul Turkish and the status of phonological rulesNicholas Kibre | p. 131
- Constraints on Constraints, or the Limits of Functional AdaptationSimon Kirby | p. 151
- Structure-preservation and Transitivity: The case of Chinese ba sentencesFeng-hsi Liu | p. 175
- Topicality and AgreementAndré Meinunger | p. 203
- Explanatory Power of Functional and Formal Approaches to Language Change: The evolution of the passive structure ser + past participle in colonial SpanishViola G. Miglio | p. 221
- Functional Optimality Theory: Evidence from split Case systemsWataru Nakamura | p. 253
- Welsh Soft Mutation and Marked Word OrderMaggie Tallerman | p. 277
- A Functional Journey with a Formal Ending: What do brow raises do in American Sign Language?Ronnie B. Wilbur | p. 295
- Part II: First Language Acquisition
- Formalism or Functionalism? Evidence from the study of language developmentErika Hoff | p. 317
- Functional Innateness: Explaining the critical period for language acquisitionJames Hurford | p. 341
- The Holophrastic Hypothesis Revisited: Structural and functional approachesElizabeth Purnell | p. 365
- Index of Authors | pp. 383–390
- Index of Languages | pp. 391–394
- Index of Subject | pp. 395–407
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