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In:Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume II: Case studies
Edited by Michael Darnell, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley
[Studies in Language Companion Series 42] 1999
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 15 March 1999

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Table of contents

Introduction: Syntax, Morphology, and Morphological Alternation1

Edith A. Moravcsik

Kathleen Wheatley

Part I: Syntax, Morphology, and Morphological Alternation

Mapping So-called “Pragmatic” Phenomena According to a “Linguistic-Extralinguistic” Distinction: The case of propositions marked “accessible”11

Lexis, Grammar, and Grammatical Change: The Koyukon classifier prefixes39

Melissa Axelrod

The Limits of Formal Analysis: Pragmatic motivation in Oromo grammar59

Gerald A. Sanders

Nancy J. Stenson

Form and Function in Syntax: Relative clauses in Tsez77

Formalizing Functionally93

Representing the Structure-Discourse Iconicity of the Japanese Post-Verbal Construction107

Between Irregular and Regular: “Imperfect generalizations” in Istanbul Turkish and the status of phonological rules131

Constraints on Constraints, or the Limits of Functional Adaptation151

Structure-preservation and Transitivity: The case of Chinese ba sentences175

Topicality and Agreement203

André Meinunger

Explanatory Power of Functional and Formal Approaches to Language Change: The evolution of the passive structure ser + past participle in colonial Spanish221

Viola G. Miglio

Functional Optimality Theory: Evidence from split Case systems253

Wataru Nakamura

Welsh Soft Mutation and Marked Word Order277

Maggie Tallerman

A Functional Journey with a Formal Ending: What do brow raises do in American Sign Language?295

Ronnie B. Wilbur

Part II: First Language Acquisition

Formalism or Functionalism? Evidence from the study of language development317

Functional Innateness: Explaining the critical period for language acquisition341

The Holophrastic Hypothesis Revisited: Structural and functional approaches365

Elizabeth Purnell

Index of Authors383

Index of Languages391

Index of Subject395