Language form and language function / Frederick J. Newmeyer.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Language, speech, and communicationPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1998. Description: xii, 428 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0262140640 (alk. paper); 9780262140645Subject(s): Linguistics -- Methodology | Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) | Formalization (Linguistics) | Functionalism (Linguistics)DDC classification: 410.1 LOC classification: P126 | .N48 1998Online resources: WorldCat details | E-book Fulltext
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The author argues that the basic principles of generative grammar, in interaction with principles in other linguistic domains, provide accounts of phenomena that functionalists have used to try to refute the generative approach.
TOC Preface --
1. The Form-Function Problem in Linguistics --
2. The Boundaries of Grammar --
3. Internal and External Explanation in Linguistics --
4. On Syntactic Categories --
5. Deconstructing Grammaticalization --
6. Language Typology and Its Difficulties --
hapter 7 Conclusion --
References --
Name Index --
{Subject Index.
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