Darnell Michael, Moravcsik Edith, Newmeyer Frederick, Noonan Michael, Wheatley Kathleen (Eds.). Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume II: Case studies

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1999. — 416 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series 42).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.Syntax, Morphology, and Morphological Alternation
Mapping So-called “Pragmatic” Phenomena According to a “Linguistic-Extralinguistic” Distinction: The case of propositions marked “accessible” - Mira Ariel
Lexis, Grammar, and Grammatical Change: The Koyukon classifier prefixes - Melissa Axelrod
The Limits of Formal Analysis: Pragmatic motivation in Oromo grammar - Robbin Clamons, Ann E. Mulkern, Gerald A. Sanders and Nancy J. Stenson
Form and Function in Syntax: Relative clauses in Tsez - Bernard Comrie and Maria Polinsky
Formalizing Functionally - Kees Hengeveld
Representing the Structure-Discourse Iconicity of the Japanese Post-Verbal Construction - Lizanne Kaiser
Between Irregular and Regular: “Imperfect generalizations” in Istanbul Turkish and the status of phonological rules - Nicholas Kibre
Constraints on Constraints, or the Limits of Functional Adaptation - Simon Kirby
Structure-preservation and Transitivity: The case of Chinese ba sentences - Feng-hsi Liu
Topicality and Agreement - André Meinunger
Explanatory Power of Functional and Formal Approaches to Language Change: The evolution of the passive structure ser + past participle in colonial Spanish - Viola G. Miglio
Functional Optimality Theory: Evidence from split Case systems - Wataru Nakamura
Welsh Soft Mutation and Marked Word Order - Maggie Tallerman
A Functional Journey with a Formal Ending: What do brow raises do in American Sign Language? - Ronnie B. WilburFirst Language Acquisition
Formalism or Functionalism? Evidence from the study of language development - Erika Hoff
Functional Innateness: Explaining the critical period for language acquisition - James Hurford
The Holophrastic Hypothesis Revisited: Structural and functional approaches - Elizabeth Purnell